[Air-L] Politics and Computational Social Science (PaCSS) Conference, Wednesday August 28 @ Georgetown University

[Ericka Menchen-Trevino]

Hello,

Apologies for cross-posting. Proposals accepted through June 10th.

*Call for Presentation Proposals*

*Politics and Computational Social Science (PaCSS) Conference, Wednesday
August 28 @ Georgetown University*

The data and methodologies available to social scientists have exploded
with the emergence of vast archives of passive data collection, large scale
online experimentation, and innovative uses of simulation. These data are
of a larger magnitude and methods are of a greater computational complexity
than approaches that have dominated the study of politics for the last 50
years.

This offers the potential for rich insights into society at scale, while
simultaneously introducing new ethical and infrastructural challenges. In
parallel, the information and communication technologies that have driven
these changes are also driving changes in politics, around the world, that
require study.

In order to understand the political world, it is increasingly important to
gain access to the political communication and behavior occurring online.
This preconference gathering will offer a forum for political science
research in this emerging space. Example relevant topics/approaches
include:  analysis of social media; text analysis; use of finely granular
geographic data; large scale online experimentation.

Scholars from all subfields of political science are welcome, as are
researchers in other relevant disciplines, such as computer science,
sociology, and physics. The meeting will take place 9am-5pm on Wednesday,
August 28th at Georgetown University.

Everyone who wishes to attend should apply. We welcome applications to
present, discuss or simply participate. We recognize that strength comes
through diversity, and actively seek, welcome, and encourage people with
diverse backgrounds, experiences, and identities to apply and attend.

This will be a one day conference with a keynote by Sandra González-Bailón
of the University of Pennsylvania. A wide range of subjects for
presentations are welcome, including purely methodologically oriented
presentations or applications thereof; synthesis/overviews of research;
discussions of ethics and/or data infrastructures; and so on. Papers are
not required.

Applications to present should be submitted by June 10 at our proposal
submission page
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Register for the conference at our registration page
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Registration is $50 before August 1, 2019 and $100 after that.  The
conference includes breakfast, lunch, coffee and snacks.

Pew Research Center is pleased to host two parallel training workshops at
their office in downtown D.C. These workshops will focus on two key areas:

1) natural language (NLP) processing techniques and their application to
social science questions, by Sarah Bouchat of Northwestern University; and

2) deep learning techniques with applications to image analysis for social
scientists, by Nora Webb Williams of the University of Washington.

Participants will be given hands-on experience building and training models
in these subject areas and will also be able to meet members of Pew
Research Center’s Data Labs team
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Workshops will run from 2pm to 5pm Tuesday August 27. Light snacks and
coffee will be provided.

Workshop cost per participant is $25.

PaCSS 2019 is sponsored by the McCourt School of Public Policy Data Science
for Public Policy Program, the Office of Provost Robert Groves, Georgetown
University and Sage Publishing and the Pew Research Center.
-Ericka

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Ericka Menchen-Trevino, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Communication
American University, Washington D.C.
http://www.ericka.cc/
https://www.american.edu/soc/faculty/menchent.cfm