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Note that Robertson Hall is under construction. The lower level is only accessible from the Washington Road entrance directly to the lower level or from the ground floor passage from Corwin Hall.

​Politics and YouTube: The Next Big Social Network

CSDP Workshop
Friday, April 12, 2019

Robertson Hall, lower level
​Princeton University

​By invitation only
This workshop will bring together innovative thinkers  to present theories, preliminary results, and technical insights in this rapidly developing area of research. This area of study is still very new; the aim of the workshop is to help organize knowledge in a way that will let many new research projects bloom.

Information is preliminary and subject to change.

Tentative Agenda
 
8:30-9:15am             Breakfast available / open brainstorming session
 
9:15-9:30                  Welcome and opening remarks (Kevin Munger, Princeton/CSDP)
 
9:30-10:00                Presentation 1: Recommendation engines -- Andy Guess and Dean Knox (Princeton)
 
10:00-10:30               Presentation 2: Descriptive analysis of YouTube --- Supply theory of alt right prominence (Kevin Munger)
 
10:30-10:50                Break
 
10:50-12:15   Methodological Research Presentations
 
10:50-11:15   Megan Brown (NYU), Using the YouTube API
 
11:15-11:40   Chris Lucas (Wash U), Methods for Analyzing Video
 
11:40-12:00   Eunji Kim (U Penn), Conducting Media Effects Studies with Video
 
12:00-12:15   Cody Buntain (NYU), Russia troll sharing behavior: media links and YouTube links 

 
12:15-1:30     Lunch 
 
1:30-4:00      Theorizing Politics on YouTube: Panel Discussions
 
1:30-2:15       Affordances of YouTube compared to previous platforms (user experience/creator)
 
Panelists: Zeynep Tufecki (UNC), Diana Mutz (UPenn), Vin Arceneaux (Temple)
Chair and Facilitator: Kevin Munger
 
2:15-3:00        Diffusion on YouTube: Recommendation Systems, Search and Social
 
Panelists: Sandra González-Bailón (UPenn), Adam Berinsky (MIT)
Chair and Facilitator: Andy Guess 

3:00-3:15        Break
 
3:15-4:00   Economics of YouTube: It’s a media company
 
Panelists: Matt Baum (Harvard), Yph Lelkes (UPenn)
Chair and Facilitator: Nathan Matias (Princeton)
 
4:00-5:00 Summary and Discussion (full group)

5:30pm Dinner for panelists and organizers