Past MEEW

2024 MEEW (May 3, 2024)

Bridging the Digital Divide: Data Access and Integration of Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia

Presenter: Nejla Asimovic [Penn/Georgetown McCourt] (co-authors: Kevin Munger, Mateo Vásquez Cortés)

Decentralized Propaganda in the Era of Digital Media: Evidence from Douyin in China

Presenter: Xu Xu [Princeton] (co-authors: Yingdan Lu, Jennifer Pan, Yiqing Xu)

Discussant: Tamar Mitts [Columbia]

Harnessing Partisan Motives to Solve the Misinformation Problem

Presenter: Jennifer Allen [MIT Sloan/NYU Stern] (co-authors: Cameron Martel, David Rand)

Discussant: Andy Guess [Princeton]

Paying Attention

Presenter: Karthik Srinivasan [Chicago Booth]

Discussant: Suresh Naidu [Columbia Econ]

Copaganda: Entertainment Media Origins of Policing Attitudes

Presenter: Eunji Kim [Columbia]  (co-authors: Tyler Reny, Esteban Manuel Fernandez)

Discussant: Patrick Egan [NYU]

Speaking with the State's Voice: The Decade-Long Growth of Government-Authored News Media in China under Xi Jinping

Presenter: Brandon M. Stewart [Princeton] (co-authors: Hannah Waight, Yin Yuan, Margaret E. Roberts)

Discussant: Dan Mattingly [Yale]

2023 MEEW (May 5, 2023)

Soubhik Barari (Harvard) & David Rothschild (Microsoft)
“Coverage and Effects of Broadcast Television in U.S. Elections” 

Discussants: Taylor Carlson (WUSTL), Yphtach Lelkes (Penn)

Eunji Kim (Columbia) & Taylor Carlson (WUSTL)
“An Era of Minimal Exposure but Not-So-Minimal Effects? The Case of Fox News”

Discussants: Alex Coppock (Yale), Markus Prior (Princeton) 

Josh McCrain (University of Utah), Greg Martin (Stanford GSB), Arianna Ornaghi (Hertie School) & Nicola Mastrorocco (Bologna) 
“Media Consolidation” 

Discussants: John Marshall (Columbia), Pinar Yildirim (Wharton)

Tamar Mitts (Columbia), Asfandyar Mir (USIP), & Austin Wright (Chicago Harris)
“Information Operations, Territorial Control, and Perceptions of Power During Conflict”
Discussants: Jane Esberg (Penn), Fotini Christia (MIT)