Sentiment :: Politics :: Citizenship
August 28, 2013
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Chicago, IL
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The 11th Annual American Political Science Association Preconference on Political Communication will be held on Wednesday, August 28, 2013, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This year's theme is Sentiment, Politics, and Citizenship.
The preconference is jointly sponsored by the APSA Political Communication Division and the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The co-chairs are Andrew Rojecki, Associate Professor in Communication and Zizi Papacharissi, Professor and Head of Communication at the University of Illinois-Chicago.
Conference Theme: Sentiment, Politics and Citizenship
The study of political communication is at an inflection point. As communication technology has become more individualized the quality of messages has become more personal and emotional. At the same time the sheer number of such messages has increased by an order of magnitude. Moreover, these messages have become more public and open to scholarly analysis. Prior to the inflection point scholars generally relied on qualitative methods for analyzing the emotive content of messages. Now the sheer number of messages available from sources such as Twitter allows quantitative mappings of very large datasets, frequently referred to as big data analysis. This scalar inversion has led to the increased study of sentiment and emotion as components of citizenship, politics and public opinion.
Conference Program
Time | SCE 605 (Student Center East) | SCE 603 |
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8:30 - 9:00 | Registration | |
9:00 - 9:15 | Welcome | |
9:20 - 10:35 | Panel A1: Social Media and Politics
Obama and Romney on Facebook & Twitter: Sentiment in the 2012 Social Campaign Deen Freelon, American UniversityBinders Full of Tweets: Stimulus-Response Curves in Twitter Reactions to News Events Lauren Guggenheim, University of Michigan Josh Pasek, University of Michigan Social Media as Activated Public Opinion Political Conversations on Facebook: An Exploration of Practices |
Panel A2: Framing and Persuasion On the Limits of Reframing Effects: The Asymmetric Stickiness of Loss and Gain Frames Which Political Ads Persuade? Erika Franklin Fowler, Wesleyan University Travis N. Ridout, Washington State University Michael Franz, Bowdoin College Gender, Party, and Social Media Message Resonance Among Young Voters During the 2012 Presidential Campaign Information Seeking in an Age of (Un)Reliable Information |
10:45 - Noon | Panel B1: Political Participation Creating Electoral Accountability in the Age of Mediatisation Nick Anstead, London School of Economics Online and Offline Political Participation: The Role of Political Efficacy Elections in the Echo Chamber: Does One-Sided Partisan News Undermine Democratic Legitimacy? You've Got (No) Mail: How Parties and Candidates Respond to Email Inquiries in Western Democracies |
Panel B2: Local Media/New Media
Political Journalism in Old and New Media Post-Print Democracy: Effects of Newspaper Closure on Voter Turnout News from the Field: The Strategic Interaction of Campaigns and Local Media The Partisan Distribution of Media Markets and Campaign News Slant |
12:15 - 1:15 | Lunch
Who Stole the American Dream? |
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1:30 - 2:45 | Panel C: Big Data: Theory & Method
Big Data, Big Issues: Applying Public Opinion Theory, Machine Learning, and Large-Scale Text Analysis to Explore Issue Opinions and Information Flow Across Traditional and Social Media The Automated Coding of Sentiment in Network Election-Period News The Dynamics of Public Attention: Agenda-Setting in the New Media Environment |
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3:00 - 4:15 | Plenary Roundtable
Comparative Political Communication and Its Importance for the Future Stephen Farnsworth, University of Mary Washington Daniel C. Hallin, University of California, San Diego Abby Jones, George Washington University Gadi Wolfsfeld, Hebrew University |
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4:30 - 6:00 | Reception |
This event is generously supported by the Martha and Victor Harnack Endowment.
Conference Registration
To register for the preconference, send a note to preconf@uic.edu. Please include your name, affiliation, and preferred email address.
Conference Location
The conference will be held at the University of Illinois at Chicago Student Center East, 750 S. Halsted Street. Directions via public or private transportation may be obtained through the map below. Please enter the Student Center through the Halsted Street entrance, and follow signs to the rooms SCE (Student Center East) 605 and 603.
Directions via public or private transportation may be obtained through the map below.
Date posted
Jul 30, 2018
Date updated
Aug 1, 2018