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.