Bernie Grofman and Alex Trechsel & Mark Franklin
Center for the Study of Democracy, University of California, Irvine
European University Institute, Florence

Saturday and Sunday, May 14-15, 2011

Laguna Room, Hotel Laguna
425 South Coast Highway
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
949-494-1151
800-524-2927
www.hotellaguna.com

with support from the University of  California, Irvine Center for the Study of Democracy and the Jack W. Peltason Endowed Chair

 

Saturday, May 14

09:30    Welcome

09:45    Panel I - Political Parties, Social Movements, and Political Participation

 

Chair: Bernard Grofman (UCI)   

• Homero Gil de Zuniga (University of Texas, Austin) – News Platform Preference as a Predictor of Political and Civic Participation
• Deana Rohlinger (Florida State University) – Virtual Power Plays:  Social Movements, Internet Communication Technology, and Political Parties
• Diana Owen (Georgetown University) – Online Engagement and Voter Decision-Making
• Alexander Trechsel (European University Institute) - A Look into the Mirror - Preferences, Representation and Electoral Participation
• Discussant:    Matt Hindman (George Washington University) and Victoria Carty (Chapman University)

 

12:15     Lunch

1:30        Panel II - Non Polling Place Voting

 

Chair: Alex Trechsel (European University Institute)  

• Rachel Gibson (U. of Manchester) –  Conceptualising and Measuring E-participation
• Michael Jensen (Autonomous University of Barcelona) – Of Iron Law and Digital Networks: A Look at Digital Campaigning in the 2010 UK General Election
• Jason Gilmore (University of Washington -with Phil Howard) - Digital Media and the 2010 National Elections in Brazil
• Discussant:   Paul Gronke (Reed College)

Sunday, May 15

10:00    Panel III - Information Gathering

 

Chair:  Victoria Carty (Chapman University)

• Matt Hindman (George Washington University) – Local News Online
• Kelly Garrett (Ohio State University) – Troubling Consequences of Online Political Rumoring
• Carter Butts (UCI) – Allies and Rivals: Modeling Citation Dynamics among Party-Credentialed Blogs in the 2004 US Electoral Cycle
• Discussant:  Paul Gronke (Reed College)

12:15    Lunch

2:00       Panel IV - Democracy

 

Chair:    Tim Groeling   (UCLA)

• Michael Margolis (University of Cincinnatti) –  Mediacracy Revisited: A Pessimistic Assessment of the Roles of American Political Parties in the Internet Age
• Daniel Ritter and Alex Trechsel (European University Institute) – Revolutionary Cells: On the Role of Texts, Tweets, and Status Updates in Nonviolent Revolutions
• Discussants:  Michael Jensen (Postdoctoral Fellow, Autonomous University, Barcelona)  Tim Groeling (UCLA)  

Please rsvp to csd@uci.edu or 949/824-2904 which dates/panels and lunch you plan on attending as soon as possible as seating is limited.