Media Effects Empirical Workshop (MEEW)

Preliminary Schedule:

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

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

Paper 1  "Social Media and Minimal Effects: A Field Experiment on Facebook Use in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Campaign" 

Presenter: Jonathan Ladd (Georgetown)

Discussant: Naoki Egami (Columbia)

Paper 2 "Misinformation Exposure Beyond Traditional Feeds: Evidence from WhatsApp Deactivation Experiments in the Global South." 

Presenter: Tiago Ventura (Georgetown McCourt)

Discussant: Gemma Dipoppa (Columbia)

Lunch 12:00pm-1:00pm

Session II:  1:00pm - 2:30pm

Paper 3 "Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India" 

Presenter: Sumitra Badrinathan (American University)

Discussant: Don Green (Columbia)
 

Paper 4 "The Rise of National Politics in the Digital Age" 

Presenter: Anna Dagorret (Stanford GSB)
Discussant:  Andrey Simonov (Columbia Business School)

Session III 2:45pm - 4:15pm

Paper 5 "How Social Media Creators Shape Mass Politics" 

Presenter: John Marshall (Columbia Polisci) 

Discussant: Jennifer Allen (NYU Sloan)

Paper 6 "Movies"  

Presenter: Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown Econ) 

Discussant: Carlo Prato (Columbia)

4:30pm-6:00pm Happy Hour