NECO 2018-2016

NECO 2020

Please note that due to the COVID-19, the workshop was held virtually.

The video of the workshop is available here for those who registered for the workshop.

Date: June 8th from 9 AM to 12:45 PM EDT
Presentation for contributed talks: 15 mins for presentation, 5 mins for Q&A (20 mins)

09:00-09:15 EDT Welcome and Opening remarks

09:15-09:45 EDT Invited Talks

09:15-09:45 EDT Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Political audience diversity and algorithmic bias in news recommendation [Slides]

09:45-10:30 EDT Break

10:30-11:30 EDT Contributed Talks

10:30-10:50 EDT Laszlo Horvath, Susan Banducci and Katharine Tyler, Intermedia Agenda Setting and Concentrated News Production: The BBC’s role in the UK’s coronavirus coverage [Paper] [Slides]

10:50-11:10 EDT Indira Sen, Fabian Flöck, Katrin Weller and Claudia Wagner, Measuring Public Opinion Online: Potentials and Pitfalls [Slides]

11:10-11:30 EDT Eni Mustafaraj, Google’s Top Stories and the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ [Paper] [Slides]

11:30-11:45 EDT Break

11:45-12:40 EDT Invited Talks

11:45-12:15 EDT Masha Krupenkin, If a Tree Falls in the Forest: COVID-19, Media Choices, and Presidential Agenda Setting [Slides]

12:15-12:40 EDT Deen Freelon, Tweeting Left, Right & Center: How users and attention are distributed across Twitter [Slides] [Report]

12:40-12:45 EDT Closing Remark

NECO 2018

Date: 25th June 2018 (Monday), 1:30pm ~ 5:30pm

Regular paper: 20 mins for presentation, 5 mins for Q&A (25 mins)
Short paper: 10 mins for presentation, 5 mins for Q&A (15 mins)

1:30~1:40 Welcome and Opening remarks

1:40~2:05 Nabil Hossain, Thanh Thuy Trang Tran and Henry Kautz, Patterns of Creative Slang in Online Political Discourse

2:05~2:20 Maurício Gruppi, Benjamin Horne and Sibel Adali, An Exploration of Misinformation Classification in Brazil and The U.S.

2:20~2:35 Joao Vicente Seno Ozawa, Leandro Leonardo Batista and Diego Senise, Applying social network analysis to compare mass media and interpersonal agenda-setting effects

2:35~2:40 Short Break

2:40~3:30 Group Activity

3:30~4:00 Coffee Break

4:00~4:40 Keynote by Nicholas Diakopoulos, “News Bots: Agents of Information or Automated Sociopaths?”

4:40~4:55 Rijul Magu, Nabil Hossain and Henry Kautz, Analyzing Uncivil Speech Provocation and Implicit Topics in Online Political News

4:55~5:20 Benjamin Horne and Sibel Adali, Richard Niemi and Yuncheng Li, An Exploration of Verbatim Content Republishing by News Producers

5:20~5:30 Closing Remark

NECO 2017

Date: 15th May 2017 (Monday)

Room: Symphonie 3B (Level 5 of the Hyatt Regency)

Regular paper: 20 mins for presentation, 5 mins for Q&A Short paper: 10 mins for presentation, 5 mins for Q&A

1:30~1:35 Welcome and Opening remarks

1:35~2:00 Benjamin Horne and Sibel Adali, This Just In: Fake News Packs a Lot in Title, Uses Simpler, Repetitive Content in Text Body, More Similar to Satire than Real News

2:00~2:25 Izabela Moise and Emina Boudemagh, News Media Coverage of Refugees in 2016: a GDELT Case-Study

2:25~2:40 Haewoon Kwak and Jisun An, Data-driven Approach to Measuring the Level of Press Freedom Using Media Attention Diversity from Unfiltered New

2:40~2:45 Short Break

2:45~3:30 Group Activity

3:30~4:00 Coffee Break

4:00~4:25 Yu Wang, Xiyang Zhang, and Jiebo Luo, Tactics and Tallies: A Study of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Campaign Using Twitter ‘Likes’

4:25~4:50 Alicja Piotrkowicz, Vania Dimitrova, Jahna Otterbacher and Katja Markert, The Impact of News Values and Linguistic Style on the Popularity of Headlines on Twitter and Facebook

4:50~5:15 Benjamin Horne and Sibel Adali, Richard Niemi and Yuncheng Li, The Impact of Crowds on News Engagement: A Reddit Case Study

5:15~5:30 Closing Remark

NECO 2016

Date: 17th May 2016 (Tuesday)

Room: Quirinius, Maternushaus

Regular paper: 20 mins for presentation, 5 mins for Q&A Short paper: 10 mins for presentation, 5 mins for Q&A

1:30~1:45 Welcome and Opening remarks

1:45~2:10 Matthew J. Williams, Iulia Cioroianu, Hywel T.P. Williams, Different news for different views: Political news-sharing communities on social media through the UK General Election in 2015

2:10~2:35 Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An, Revealing the Hidden Patterns of News Photos: Analysis of Millions of News Photos through GDELT and Deep Learning-based Vision APIs

2:35~2:45 Short Break

2:45~3:30 Group Activity

3:30~4:00 Coffee Break

4:00~4:25 Lucy X. Wang, Arthi Ramachandran, Augustin Chaintreau, Measuring Click and Share Dynamics on Social Media: A Reproducible and Validated Approach

4:25~4:40 (short) Yu Wang, Jiebo Luo, Richard Niemi and Yuncheng Li, To Follow or not to Follow: Analyzing the Growth Patterns of the Trumpists on Twitter

4:40~5:00 Closing Remark