Name Time More Info Location Name
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Workshop Day 1: October 16 FDS
Breakfast & Registration9:00 AM - 9:45 AMKline Tower 14th Floor
Welcome & Introductory Remarks9:45 AM - 10:00 AMKline Tower 14th Floor
Brendan Nyhan, "Promoting Sources With Diverse Partisan Audiences Enhances News Feed Quality Without Reducing Engagement"10:00 AM - 10:25 AMKline Tower 14th Floor
Jenny Allen, "Measuring Strategization in Recommendation: Users Adapt Their Behavior to Shape Future Content"10:25 AM - 10:50 AMKline Tower 14th Floor
Coffee Break10:50 AM - 11:20 AMKline Tower 14th Floor
Mor Naaman, "It's The Signals, Stupid: Better Approaches For Online Trustworthiness"11:20 AM - 11:55 AMKline Tower 14th Floor
Smitha Milli, "Intentionally Curated, Collectively Constrained: New Approaches To Social Media"11:55 AM - 12:20 PMKline Tower 14th Floor
Luncheon12:20 PM - 1:20 PMKline Tower 14th Floor
Poster Session Lightning Talks1:20 PM - 2:00 PMKline Tower 14th Floor
Alexander Volfovsky, "New Experimental Designs With Generative AI — From Texts, To Networks, To Interacting Agents"2:00 PM - 2:25 PMKline Tower 14th Floor
Afternoon Coffee Break2:25 PM - 2:50 PMKline Tower 14th Floor
Cameron Martel, "Political Motives Help Rather Than Hinder Crowdsourced Fact-checking"2:50 PM - 3:15 PMKline Tower 14th Floor
Sarah Cen, "Social media, its regulation, and the challenges of auditing social media platforms" 3:15 PM - 3:40 PMKline Tower 14th Floor
Michiel Bakker, "AI-mediated Systems For Collective Human Decision Making"3:40 PM - 4:05 PMKline Tower 14th Floor
Discussion: New Directions4:05 PM - 5:05 PMKline Tower 14th Floor
Poster Session5:05 PM - 6:30 PMKline Tower 13th Floor
Friday, October 17, 2025
Workshop Day 2: October 17 FDS
Breakfast8:30 AM - 9:00 AMKline Tower 14th Floor
Day 2 Welcome & Recap9:00 AM - 9:10 AMKline Tower 14th Floor
Martin Saveski, "Social Media Algorithms Can Shape Affective Polarization Via Exposure To Antidemocratic Attitudes And Partisan Animosity"9:10 AM - 9:35 AMKline Tower 14th Floor
Andy Guess, "Studying Politics And Feed Algorithms In A Post-api Age"9:35 AM - 10:00 AMKline Tower 14th Floor
Coffee Break10:00 AM - 10:30 AMKline Tower 14th Floor
Manish Raghavan, "AI, Homogeneity, and Creativity"10:30 AM - 10:55 AMKline Tower 14th Floor
Ceren Budak, "The Pro-Social Ranking Challenge: A Large-scale Cross-Platform Study of Social Media Platform Design Trade-Offs"10:55 AM - 11:20 AMKline Tower 14th Floor
Brad Miller, "Scaling Common Ground: AI Note Writing and Bridging Beyond Notes"11:20 AM - 11:45 AMKline Tower 14th Floor
Luncheon11:45 AM - 12:45 PMKline Tower 14th Floor
Ziv Epstein, "Re-inventing The Attention Machine"12:45 PM - 1:10 PMKline Tower 14th Floor
James Grimmelmann, "Community Notes as Bridging Counterspeech"1:10 PM - 1:35 PMKline Tower 14th Floor
Coffee Break1:35 PM - 2:05 PMKline Tower 14th Floor
Discussion: Breakout Sessions2:05 PM - 3:05 PMVarious rooms in Kline Tower
Synthesis and summary3:10 PM - 4:00 PMKline Tower 14th Floor