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Past Event

Media Effects Empirical Workshop

May 2, 2025
10:00 AM - 4:15 PM
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International Affairs Building | 420 West 118th Street | New York, NY 10027 | Lindsay Rogers Room 707

An annual workshop featuring the latest research in political communication across subfields.

 


Preliminary Schedule:

Breakfast and registration 10:00am - 10:30am

Session I: 10:30am - 12:00pm

Paper 1  Jonathan Ladd (Georgetown): Social Media and Minimal Effects: A Field Experiment on Facebook Use in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Campaign.  Discussant: Naoki Egami (Columbia)

Paper 2 Tiago Ventura (Georgetown McCourt): Misinformation Exposure Beyond Traditional Feeds: Evidence from WhatsApp Deactivation Experiments in the Global South. Discussant: Gemma Dipoppa (Columbia)

Lunch 12:00pm-1:00pm

Session II:  1:00pm - 2:30pm

Paper 3 Sumitra Badrinathan (American): Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India. Discussant: Don Green (Columbia)

Paper 4 Anna Dagorret (Stanford GSB): The Rise of National Politics in the Digital Age. Discussant: Audrey Sim  (Columbia Business School)

Session III 2:45pm - 4:15pm

Paper 5 John Marshall (Columbia): How Social Media Shape Mass Politics.  Discussant: Jennifer Allen (NYU Stern) 

Paper 6 Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown Econ): Movies. Discussant: Andrea Prat  (Columbia Econ)

4:30pm-6:00pm Happy Hour at Arts and Crafts Beer Parlor (1135 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10025)