ODYCCEUS Online Conference - The Computational Analysis of Cultural Conflict

Program (time zone: CET/UTC+2)

 
Monday, June 07, 2021
10:00 - 10:15Welcome and Opening

Concepts and Theories

10:15 - 11:15Massimo Warglien (Università Ca' Foscari, Italy)
Games and Conceptual Spaces
11:15 - 12:15Eckehard Olbrich (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany)
Political Spaces as Conceptual Spaces
12:15 - 14:00Lunch Break

Case Studies - History

14:00 - 15:00Simon Levis Sullam (Università Ca' Foscari, Italy) (joint work with Giorgia Minello, Rocco Tripodi)
Tracing Discourse on Jews in the French Long 19th Century: a Distant Reading.
15:00 - 16:00Stijn Peeters (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) (joint work with Marc Tuters, Tom Willaert (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Daniel de Zeeuw, and Sal Hagen)
On the Vernacular Language Games of an Antagonistic Online Subculture
16:00 - 17:00Richard Rogers (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) (joint work with Armin Pournaki (MPI MiS))
Where is the urgency in the climate change discourse?
 
Tuesday, June 08, 2021

Modelling, Mechanisms, and Experiments

10:00 - 11:00Sven Banisch (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany)
Social Feedback Theory: Modeling collective opinion phenomena by learning from the feedback of others
11:00 - 12:00Marcel Sarközi (Leipzig University, Germany)
The Effects of Social Feedback on Private Opinions. Empirical Evidence from the Laboratory
12:00 - 14:00Lunch Break

Case Studies - Opinion Dynamics

14:00 - 15:00Romain Leconte (Université de Paris, France) Etienne Toureille and Claude Grasland (Université de Paris, France), joined work with Marta Severo (Université de Paris Nanterre, France)
A Multidimensional Analysis of Geopolitical Agenda. Border and Migrant Crisis in the Western European Press (2014 - 2018)
15:00 - 16:00Felix Gaisbauer (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany)
Public Debate on Twitter: Counterpublics and Ideological Differences
 
Wednesday, June 09, 2021

Case Studies

10:00 - 11:00Pedro Ramaciotti Morales (SciencesPo, Paris, France)
Embedding Informational Ecosystems in Ideological Spaces and Tracking Group Dynamics
11:00 - 12:00Livia van Vliet (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
The Moral Messages of Brexit: Analysis of Politician Tweets Following the Referendum Vote of 2016
12:00 - 14:00Lunch Break

Social Impact

14:00 - 15:00Tom Willaert (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
An Opinion Facilitator for Online News Media
15:00 - 16:00Philipp Lorenz-Spreen (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany)
Behavioural science to empower truth and democratic discourse online
16:00 - 17:00Petter Törnberg (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) (joint work with Justus Uitermark)
Impacts of New Social Media
20:00 - 22:00Panel discussion
Julia Ebner (University of Oxford, United Kingdom) Andreas Jungherr (Universität Bamberg, Germany), Philipp Lorenz-Spreen (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany)
Social Media: Democratization or Radicalization Engine?

Date and Location

June 07 - 09, 2021
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Virtual event - Videobroadcast

Scientific Organizer

Eckehard Olbrich
MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences

Local Organization

Felix Gaisbauer
MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences

Administrative Contact

Antje Vandenberg
MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences
Contact by Email
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