| March 10th, 2019 | Workshops and tutorials proposal submission deadline |
| March 30th, 2019 | Workshops and tutorials acceptance notification |
| Extended to April 20th, 2019 | Deadline for abstract submission |
| Extended to May 20th, 2019 | Deadline for dataset challenge submission, doctoral consortium submission and travel grant applications |
| June 10th, 2019 | Notification of acceptance (including travel grants) |
| August 17th, 2019 | Registration closes (including Dataset Challenge) |
| September 2nd, 2019 | Pre-symposium day (workshops/tutorials/dataset challenge/doctoral consortium) |
| September 3rd-4th, 2019 | Main symposium |
This is the third in a series of three symposia that discuss societal challenges in computational social sciences. In 2019, the focus will be on “Polarization and Radicalization” (Zurich, 2019). In the previous two years, the focus was “Inequality and Imbalance” (London, 2017) and “Bias and Discrimination” (Cologne, 2018).
With these three events we provide a platform to address one of the most pressing challenges in today’s digital society: understanding the role that digital technologies, the Web, and the algorithms used therein play in the mediation and creation of inequalities, discrimination and polarization.
By addressing inequality as the topical issue for the symposium series we intend to explore how CSS can contribute to opening up new ways of thinking about, of measuring, detecting and coping with social inequality, discrimination, and polarization. We will discuss how divides and inequalities are proliferated in digital society, how social cleavages can be observed via web data, how the organizational structure of the web itself generates biases and inequality, and how, in contrast, algorithms and computational tools might help to reduce discrimination and inequality. We will also investigate how bias and unequal social structures foster political tension and polarization, including issues of radicalization and hate.
The Symposium series is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
The Euro CSS 2019 will be a three-day event consisting of:
You can register online via Eventbrite (click here) until August 17th, 2019. Paper/poster submission is not a requirement for attendance.
The registration fee is 60 CHF. It covers the participation fee, coffee breaks and lunch (September 2nd-4th, 2019). To secure a place for a workshop or tutorial on the first day, don’t forget to register early.
Cancellation Policy
Attendees can receive refunds up to 14 days before the event starts (August 19th, 2019). Cancellation must be made in writing by sending an email to css.events@gesis.org
| Anupama Aggarwal, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences | Yelena Mejova, ISI Foundation |
| Luca Maria Aiello, Nokia Bell Labs | Friedolin Merhout, Duke University |
| Fred Amblard, IRIT – University Toulouse 1 Capitole | Stasa Milojevic, Indiana University Bloomington |
| Jisun An, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University | Sophie Muetzel, University of Lucerne |
| Mario Angst, Eawag | Sanna Ojanpera, University of Oxford |
| Pablo Aragón, Universitat Pompeu Fabra | Atte Oksanen, University of Tampere |
| Pablo Barberá, London School of Economics | Marcos Oliveira, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences |
| Andrea Baronchelli, City, University of London | Symeon Papadopoulos, Information Technologies Institute |
| Catherine Bouko, Ghent University | Alessandro Provetti, Birkbeck, University of London |
| Ulrik Brandes, ETH Zurich | Hemant Purohit, George Mason University |
| Cody Buntain, University of Maryland | Cornelius Puschmann, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society |
| Fabio Celli, University of Trento | Anabel Quan-Haase, The University of Western Ontario |
| Michele Coscia, IT University of Copenhagen | Pekka Räsänen, University of Turku |
| Clau Dermont, University of Zurich | Raquel Recuero, Catholic University of Pelotas (UCPel) |
| Achim Edelmann, University of Bern | Luca Rossi, IT University of Copenhagen |
| Victor M. Eguiluz, IFISC (CSIC-UIB) | Camille Roth, CNRS |
| Uwe Engel, University of Bremen | Giancarlo Ruffo, University of Turin |
| Kiran Garimella, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Rossano Schifanella, University of Turin |
| Fabio Giglietto, University of Urbino “Carlo Bo” | Ingo Scholtes, ETH Zurich |
| Kristina Gligoric, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) | Simon Schweighofer, Complexity Science Hub Vienna & Medical University of Vienna |
| Przemyslaw Grabowicz, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems | Carsten Schwemmer , University of Bamberg |
| André Grow, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research | Uwe Serdült, Ritsumeikan University |
| Oul Han, University of Koblenz | Susumu Shikano, University of Konstanz |
| Aniko Hannak, Complexity Science Hub & Vienna Uni. of Economics and Business | Xiaoling Shu, University of California, Davis |
| Raphael H. Heiberger, University of Bremen | Julian Sienkiewicz, Warsaw University of Technology |
| Kazuhiro Kazama, Wakayama University | Elisaveta Sivak, National Research University Higher School of Economics |
| Brian Keegan, University of Colorado Boulder | Yun-Ju Song, Ryerson University |
| Marc Keuschnigg, Linköping University | Sebastian Stier, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences |
| Katharina Kinder-Kurlanda, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences | Carmen Vaca, ESPOL |
| Bennett Kleinberg, University College London | George Valkanas, Detectica, Inc. |
| Andreas Koch, University of Salzburg | Johannes Wachs, Central European University |
| Dominik Kowald, Know-Center | Annie Waldherr, University of Münster |
| Juhi Kulshrestha, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences | Ingmar Weber, Qatar Computing Research Institute |
| Anders Olof Larsson, Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology | Robert West, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne |
| Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California | Gregor Wiedemann, University of Hamburg |
| Jürgen Lerner, University of Konstanz | Christo Wilson, Northeastern University |
| Matteo Magnani, Uppsala University | Arkaitz Zubiaga, The University of Warwick |
Download the program in PDF
Venue: HG Building
Dataset Challenge (Part I)
From 10:30: Doctoral Consortium (Part I)
Tutorial: Introduction to Multi-edge Network Inference in R Using the Ghypernet-package
Workshop: A Gentle Introduction to Word Embeddings for Computational Social Sciences
Workshop: Challenges and Opportunities in Automated Coding of Contentious Political Events (Part I)
Workshop: Validating Models of Opinion Polarization in the Digital Era
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
9:00 – 12:30Venue: HG Building
Dataset Challenge (Part II)
Until 18:00: Doctoral Consortium (Part II)
Tutorial: Designing and Conducting Online Experimental Studies in Social Networks
Tutorial: Higher-Order Network Analytics for Time-Stamped Data on Social Interactions
Tutorial: Polarization on Social Media
Workshop: Challenges and Opportunities in Automated Coding of Contentious Political Events (Part II)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
14:00 – 17:30Venue: bQm Culture Café & Bar
Click here to view the speakers of the Science Slam
20:00
Disinformation in Context: Understanding Qualitative Approaches to Social Media Manipulation
Discussant: Lena Frischlich
Chair: David García
Uphill from Here: Sentiment Patterns in Videos from Left- and Right-wing YouTube News Channels
Felix Soldner, Justin Chun-Ting Ho, Mykola Makhortykh, Isabelle van der Vegt, Maximilian Mozes and Bennett Kleinberg
Trolls, Bots and Everyone Else: Online Disinformation Campaigns and 2019 Presidential Elections in Ukraine
Mykola Makhortykh and Aleksandra Urman
Online Behavior and Cognitive Reflection: A Field Study on Twitter
Mohsen Mosleh, Gordon Pennycook and David Rand
Socio-Economic Factors in News Consumption Using Mobile Phone Data
Leo Ferres, Salvatore Vilella, Daniela Paolotti and Giancarlo Ruffo
How Climate Change Skeptics Spread Their Ideas: A Multi-method Approach to Assess the Effect of Online Communication on Media Coverage
Silke Adam, Thomas Häussler, Ueli Reber and Hannah Schmid-Petri
Disinformation and Hyperpartisanship on Twitter During the 2018 Presidential Election in Brazil
Raquel Recuero, Felipe Soares and Anatoliy Gruzd
11:15 – 12:15
Chair: Laurence Brandenberger
1. A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing: Excess Confidence Explains Negative Attitudes Towards Science
Frederico Francisco, Simone Lackner and Joana Gonçalves-Sá
2. Neural Learning of Misinformation Cascades from Propagation Dynamics
Francesco Paolo Ducci, Stefan Feuerriegel and Mathias Kraus
3. “Bot Don’t Support Them!” Twitter Bots and Popular Protest in Russia, 2015–2018
Denis Stukal, Sergey Sanovich, Joshua A. Tucker and Richard Bonneau
4. Modelling Collective Decision-making in Policy Networks
Maxime Stauffer, Igor Krawczuk and Nora Ammann
5. A Sinister Way of Trolling: Disguising the Real Identity
Melih Kırlıdoğ
6. Modeling the Subnational Risk of Acute Malnutrition in Conflict-Affected Settings
Mirko Reul, Ravi Bhavnani and Karsten Donnay
7. Locating Radical and Moderate Messages in a Fragmented Media Landscape: The Case of Jobbik in Hungary
Endre Borbáth and Theresa Gessler
8. Who Shares Fake News on Online Social Networks? An Agent-based Model to Study the Spread of Misinformation in Social Media
Poornima Belavadi, Laura Burbach, Patrick Halbach, Martina Ziefle and André Calero Valdez
9. A Bayesian Spreading Model for Online Rumors
Christof Naumzik and Stefan Feuerriegel
10. Computer-assisted Discourse Analysis of the Political Economy of Coal Transitions
Finn Müller-Hansen, Max Callaghan, Yuan Ting Lee, Anna Leipprand, Christian Flachsland and Jan Minx
11. Online Influence, Offline Violence: Linguistic Responses to the ‘Unite the Right’ Rally
Isabelle van der Vegt, Maximilian Mozes, Paul Gill and Bennett Kleinberg
12. Online and Offline Polarisation of Opinions in the Context of the European Migrant Crisis
Sander Salvet
13. Social Feedback Theory of Opinion Expression and Polarisation
Sven Banisch, Felix Gaisbauer and Eckehard Olbrich
14. On-line Page Scraping Reveals Evidence of Moderation in 4chan/pol/ Anonymous Discussion Threads
Iacopo Pozzana, Ylli Prifti and Alessandro Provetti
15. Echo Chambers and Polarisation on Facebook During the German Federal Election Campaign 2017
Wolf Schünemann and Stefan Steiger
16. Modeling Propaganda Battle: Decision-Making, Homophily, and Echo Chambers
Olga Proncheva and Alexander Petrov
17. Climate Change Debate on Reddit
Kathie Treen
20. Contentious Diffusion: Studying Polarization Dynamics Through Signed Network Extraction on Social Media
Petter Törnberg, Anna Keuchenius and Livia van Vliet
21. A Study of Confirmation Bias and Polarization in Information Behavior
Simone Kopeinik, Paul Seitlinger and Elisabeth Lex
22. Pitfalls in Analyzing Polarization
Tugrulcan Elmas and Karl Aberer
23. Strategic Complexity and Political Reflection in a Foreign Language – Evidence from Reddit
Soenke Ehret
24. Cross-Cutting Political Awareness Through Diverse News Recommendations
Bibek Paudel and Abraham Bernstein
Chair: Frank Schweitzer
The Re-presentation of Contentious Politics: Variations in Coverage of #UniteTheRight on Twitter
Karsten Donnay, Jungseock Joo, Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld and Thomas Zeitzoff
Discourse vs. Voting: An Analysis of Polarization over 40 Years of the Portuguese Parliament
Paulo Almeida, Lília Perfeito, Manuel Marques-Pita and Joana Gonçalves-Sá
Migration Policy Framing and Party Polarization – Evidence from Legislative Speeches in Canada and the US
Sanja Hajdinjak, Marcella Morris and Tyler Amos
Polarisation of Online Media Consumption? Examining Whether Leavers and Remainers Read the Same News in the Brexit Referendum Campaign
Clemens Jarnach
“Hashjacking” the Debate: Polarisation Strategies of Germany’s Political Far-right on Twitter
Philipp Darius and Fabian Stephany
Rhetorics of Radicalism
Daniel Karell and Michael Freedman
Political Coalitions and Divisions: Studying Polarisation with the Twitter Politician Database
Livia van Vliet, Petter Törnberg and Justus Uitermark
14:00 – 15:20
Polarization and the Evolution of Coalitions in Public Policy Debates
Discussant: Axel Bruns
15:50 – 17:20So What? Towards Measuring Real-world Impact of Online Manipulation.
Jürgen Pfeffer
Polarized Ukraine 2014: Opinion and Territorial Split Demonstrated with the Bounded Confidence XY Model, Parametrized by Twitter Data
Viktoria Spaiser
A Weighted Balance Model of Opinion Hyperpolarization
Simon Schweighofer
From Consensus to Polarization and Back. Creating a Dialogue Between Abstract Computational Models and Empirical Data.
Discussant: Carter Butts
Chair: Frank Schweitzer
Social Media Strategies of Right-Wing Movements – The Radicalization of Pegida
Carsten Schwemmer
Consequences of Polarization in Open Peer-production
Juergen Lerner and Alessandro Lomi
Integration and Diversity: Experiments on the Interplay Between Preferences and Group Formation
Anxo Sanchez, Sanjeev Goyal, Penélope Hernández, Guillem Martínez, Frederic Moisan and Manuel Muñoz-Herrera
Local Governments and Native Attitudes Toward Immigration
Elizabeth Dekeyser
The Joint Dynamics of Social Networks and Political Opinions: A Bipartite Network Approach to the Empirical Study of Polarization
Kieran Mepham, Christoph Stadtfeld and András Vörös
Brexit 2018 in Hashtags: Events, Tribes and User Engagement
Hywel Williams and Iain Weaver
Clashing Norms – The Role of Network Structure in Normative Group Conflict
Julian Kohne, Natalie Gallagher, Melis Kirgil, Lars Padmos, Rocco Paolillo and Fariba Karimi
11:05 – 12:15
Chair: Laurence Brandenberger
1. Trolling in the Deep: Mapping White Supremacy Groups Across the Internet from Surface to Dark Web
Kathleen Moore, Lisa Colelli, Emma Leonard and Ariel Kennedy
2. Deliberative Platform Design: The Case of Decidim Barcelona
Pablo Aragón, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Antonio Calleja-López, Andrés Pereira de Lucena, Arnau Monterde, Xabier Barandarian and Vicenç Gómez
3. Modeling Artist Preferences of Users with Different Music Consumption Patterns for Fair Music Recommendations
Dominik Kowald, Elisabeth Lex and Markus Schedl
4. Transnationalisation Patterns in Media Consumption of Populist Radical Right Parties’ Twitter Followers in Germany, Switzerland and Austria
Aleksandra Urman
5. We Know What You Will Do Next Summer – A Deep Learning Approach to Predict Internet Voting Use with Electoral Register Data
Uwe Serdült and Mate Kovacs
6. Empirical Detection of Tipping Points Using Complexity Science
Neal Tsur, Lev Muchnik and Dan Miodownik
7. Exploiting Weak Ties in Trust-based Recommender Systems Using Regular Equivalence
Tomislav Duricic, Emanuel Lacic, Dominik Kowald and Elisabeth Lex
8. Examining Performance Capital and Gender-based Homophily Among Musicians on YouTube
Anatoliy Gruzd and Jaigris Hodson
9. Modeling Radicalization Dynamics in Activity-driven Networks
Fabian Baumann, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Michele Starnini and Igor M. Sokolov
11. Predicting Offline Political Support with Online Social Behavior
Giona Casiraghi, Simon Schweighofer, Laurence Brandenberger and Frank Schweitzer
12. The Influence of Activists on Political Polarization
Lucas Böttcher, Pedro Montealegre, Eric Goles and Hans Gersbach
13. Polarisation and Politicisation in Social Exposure to Climate Change Information
Tristan J. B. Cann, Iain S. Weaver and Hywel T. P. Williams
14. Twitter Networks of Voter (De)mobilization in the 2018 Municipal Elections in Jerusalem: A Mixed-Methods Analysis
Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Maya de Vries, Daniel Maier and Daniela Stoltenberg
16. Understanding Emotional Language in Political Speech
Gloria Genarro and Elliott Ash
17. Polarization and Radical “Otherness” During Indian Elections: Public Sphere in the Cyber-South
Narayanamoorthy Nanditha
18. Predicting the Populist Vote
Liam Beiser-McGrath and Robert Huber
19. MoralStrength: Exploiting a Moral Lexicon and Embedding Similarity for Moral Foundations Prediction
Oscar Araque, Lorenzo Gatti and Kyriaki Kalimeri
20. The Revealing Relationship Between the Replacement Conspiracy Theory and the Right Wing Populist Parties
Taehee Kim, Michael Jankowski and Markus Tepe
24. Detecting Foreign Influence Operations’ Content on Social Media
Meysam Alizadeh, Jacob Shapiro, Cody Buntain and Joshua Tucker
25. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner: Polarization in Campaign Fundraising Event Networks
Michael Kowal
Chair: David García
On the Measurement of Party Polarization
Yunkyu Sohn and James Fowler
Right-Wing Populism and Media in Direct Democratic Campaigns
Clau Dermont, Theresa Gessler, Fabrizio Gilardi and Stefan Müller
No Country for Asylum Seekers? How Short-term Exposure to Refugees Influences Attitudes and Voting Behavior in Hungary
Theresa Gessler, Gergo Toth and Johannes Wachs
The Rise of Populist Challengers and the Reconfiguration of the European Political Space as a Challenge for Mathematical Models of Opinion Dynamics
Eckehard Olbrich and Sven Banisch
Analyzing Political Polarization and Legislative Effectiveness Through Partitioning Networks of U.S. Congress Legislators
Samin Aref and Zachary Neal
Combined Agent Based Model and Experimental Approach to Polarization and Radicalization of Public Opinion
Pawel Sobkowicz and Magdalena E Wojcieszak
Psychology and Morality of Political Extremists: Evidence from Twitter Language Analysis of Alt-Right and Antifa
Meysam Alizadeh, Ingmar Weber, Claudio Cioffi-Revilla, Santo Fortunato and Michael Macy
Shifting Attitudes Toward Wealth Redistribution by the Government: An Experiment of Depolarization
Stefano Balietti, Lise Getoor and Duncan Watts
14:00 – 15:30
Measuring Hate: Fears and Hopes
Discussant: Simon Hug
SAGE Best Presentation Award
EPJ Data Science Best Poster Award
Euro CSS Symposium Dataset Challenge Award
Euro CSS Symposium Science Slam Award
17:30 – 18:00Workshop: Challenges and Opportunities in Automated Coding of Contentious Political Events < Click for more details
Organized by Erdem Yörük (Koç University & University of Oxford), Ali Hürriyetoğlu (Koç University), Çağrı Yoltar (Koç University), Fırat Durusan (Ankara University & Koç University), Osman Mutlu (Koç University) and Aline Villavicencio (University of Essex)
Workshop: Dataset Challenge 2019: Machine Behavior Datathon < Click for more details
Organized by Aniko Hannak (Complexity Science Hub & Vienna University of Economics and Business) and Simon Schweighofer (Complexity Science Hub Vienna & Medical University of Vienna) – The best project will earn the Euro CSS Dataset Challenge Award (250 EUR)
Tutorial: Designing and Conducting Online Experimental Studies in Social Networks < Click for more details
Organized by Mohsen Mosleh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Tutorial: Higher-Order Network Analytics for Time-Stamped Data on Social Interactions < Click for more details
Organized by Ingo Scholtes (University of Wuppertal & University of Zurich)
Tutorial: Introduction to Multi-edge Network Inference in R Using the Ghypernet-package < Click for more details
Organized by Giona Casiraghi (ETH Zurich) and Laurence Brandenberger (ETH Zurich)
Tutorial: Polarization on Social Media < Click for more details
Organized by Kiran Garimella (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Gianmarco De Francisci Morales (ISI Foundation), Michael Mathioudakis (University of Helsinki) and Aristides Gionis (Aalto University)
Workshop: A Gentle Introduction to Word Embeddings for Computational Social Sciences < Click for more details
Organized by Maximilian Mozes (University College London) and Bennett Kleinberg (University College London)
Workshop: Validating Models of Opinion Polarization in the Digital Era < Click for more details
Organized by Michael Mäs (University of Groningen), Jan Lorenz (Jacobs University Bremen), Marijn Keijzer (University of Groningen) and Andreas Flache (University of Groningen)
Download the list of accepted submissions
The Best Presentation Award is presented by
The Best Poster Award is presented by
We welcome submissions in the intersection of the social sciences and the computer sciences, including (a) new approaches for understanding social phenomena and addressing societal challenges, (b) improving methods for computational social science, (c) and understanding the influence of the Web and digital technologies on society.
For the 3rd Symposium we are especially interested in the following four main topics:
I. misinformation and censorship
(including political tension, upheaval and disrupt; public sphere in the digital age; social media as alternative communication channels; information leakage; whistleblowing)
II. discourse polarization and echo chambers
(including discourse radicalization; effects of filter bubbles; online and offline radicalization; diffusion of information)
III. online and offline group formation
(including global, national and local network structures; effects of weak and strong ties in contemporary and historic societies; mobilization patterns)
IV. political polarization and populism
(including political networks and party politics; detection of radicalization and deradicalization; political campaigning)
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: April 20th, 2019
Acceptance notification: June 10th, 2019
Conference days: September 3rd and 4th, 2019
Extended abstracts should be submitted in English and in pdf format [here]
Submissions should be abstracts of approx. 2-3 pages (up to 1000 words plus references and figures) summarizing the work to be presented. We encourage researchers to also submit abstracts of work that has already been published and/or submit work in progress. Please give a sufficiently detailed description of your work and your methods so we can adequately assess its relevance. Please consider that reviewers will be from an interdisciplinary community.
Each extended abstract will be reviewed by a Program Committee composed of experts in computational social science. Accepted submissions will be non-archival, i.e. there are no proceedings. Submissions will mostly be evaluated based on relevance and the potential to stimulate interesting discussions. Submissions may be accepted as talks or posters and there will be the SAGE Best Presentation Award as well as the EPJ Data Science Best Poster Award.
Workshops will give the opportunity to meet and discuss issues with a selected focus, providing an excellent forum for exploring emerging approaches and task areas and bridging the gaps between the social science and technology fields.
Tutorials will be an opportunity for cross-disciplinary engagement and a deeper understanding of new tools, techniques, and research methodologies. Tutorials should provide either an in-depth look at an emerging technique or software package or a broad summary of an important direction in the field.
Members of all segments of the social media research community are encouraged to submit proposals. To foster interaction and exchange of ideas, the workshops will be kept small, with 30 participants maximum.
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: March 10th, 2019
Acceptance notification: March 30th, 2019
Workshops and tutorials day: September 2nd, 2019
Please submit your workshop or tutorial proposal by sending a PDF file via email to css.eurosymposium@gmail.com
Proposals for workshops and tutorials should be no more than three (3) pages in length (10pt, single column, with reasonable margins), written in English, and should contain the following:
a) A concise title
b) The names, affiliations, and contact information of the organizers
c) Planned duration of the event (half-day or full-day meeting)
d) A short abstract describing the scope and main objective of the event
e) A description of the proposed event format and a detailed list of proposed activities
Workshops and tutorials will be selected based on the following criteria:
1) Timeliness of the topic
2) Potential to attract the interest of researchers in computer science and social/organizational sciences
3) Promotion of activities that are different from the classic mini-conference format; those include challenges, games, interactive sessions, brainstorming and networking.
4) Involvement people of different backgrounds in the organizing committee
5) Addressing topics at the intersection of different disciplines
This year the symposium will again feature a doctoral consortium. It will take place on the pre-symposium day September 2, 2019.
PhD candidates from all disciplines that work on topics related to computational social science are welcome to apply for participation. The doctoral consortium is non-public and will only be open to participants that have been selected based on their applications.
During the doctoral consortium, participants will receive individual feedback on their work from two experts of different areas in CSS who will join as mentors during the event. Participants will also have the opportunity to connect with other PhD candidates in the field. Participation in the doctoral consortium is most useful for doctoral candidates “in the middle” of their PhD, but in exceptional cases we might also select people who have only recently started working on their topic or are already close to finishing their PhD.
Based on the submissions we will select participants to present their work in the consortium meeting and to participate in discussions and mentoring sessions. We are interested in all topics that fit into computational social science, the topic of the PhD thesis does not have to be directly related to this year’s symposium theme “polarization and radicalization”.
Applications should be submitted via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eurocsssymposium2019
Submissions should be PDF files of up to approx. 1000 words, including the following information:
Deadline for submissions is May 10th, 2019 extended to May 20th, 2019.
Participants presenting in the doctoral consortium can also apply for travel grants. The number of grants as well as the amount per grant is limited. Please see more detailed information here.
The European Symposium on Societal Challenges in CSS will host a one-day datathon on September 2nd, 2019 on the topic of Machine Behavior. The aim of the datathon is to advance our understanding of machine behavior, quantitatively analyzing the behavior of intelligent machines in their natural environments when interacting with humans. We are specially interested in both the behavior of machines and of humans when interacting with each other through any medium.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Participants will have access to a series of datasets on the above topics but can also bring their own data on related topics. Please see more information about the datasets here: https://dgarcia.eu/machine-behavior-datathon-at-eurocss-2019/ The datathon will start with some introductory presentations and will have leading scientists in the field as advisors to help in the projects. At the end of the day, each participant will present their work and the best project will earn a Euro CSS Dataset Challenge Award (250 EUR).
The deadline for registration to the Machine Behavior Datathon is August 17th, 2019.
Please register for the symposium via Eventbrite and make sure to select both the morning and afternoon Dataset Challenge sessions “[Full Day Event – Part I] Dataset Challenge” as well as “[Full Day Event – Part II] Dataset Challenge” in the workshop/tutorial selection menu.
A Science Slam is an epic scientific event where scientists compete with short talks on their research. It’s just like a poetry slam, but with science instead of poems. Slammers are completely free to do whatever they want on stage, everything is allowed including slides, games, the more creative, the better! The winners will receive the Euro CSS Symposium Science Slam Award (1st winner: 200 EUR, 2nd winner: 100 EUR).
The only two rules are:
1) The topic of the slam has to be related to data science / computational social science or to social media, online data or digital behavioral data, and
2) Presentations should not take more than 8 minutes.
When? –>September 2nd, 8pm
Where? –> “BQM” at polyterrasse in ETH Zurich (http://www.bqm-bar.ch/)
How much? –> For free! First come first served – capacity for attendance is limited
Do you want to present at the slam? –> Send an email with the title and a short description of what you want to do to garcia@csh.ac.at the latest by August 10th, 2019
Speakers of the Science Slam:
The symposium will take place in Switzerland at the ETH Zurich campus in Zurich city center.
Participants are kindly asked to go the ML Buliding for registration first, before heading to the HG building for the pre-symposium day.
ML Building (Maschinenlaboratorium, D-MAVT)
Address: Sonneggstrasse 3, 8092 Zurich
HG Building (Schulleitung, Verwaltung, D-MATH, D-GESS)
Address: Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zurich
Room ML D 28, ML Building (Maschinenlaboratorium, D-MAVT)
Address: Sonneggstrasse 3, 8092 Zurich
The bQm Culture Café & Bar is a popular location located at the Polyterrasse in ETH Zurich.
Address: Leonhardstrasse 34, 8092 Zurich
The ETH Zurich Zentrum campus is a 10-minute walk from the Zurich Main Station. Alternatively, you can reach the Zentrum campus by tram no. 6 or 10 from the Zurich Main Station. The nearest stop is “ETH/Universitätsspital”.
From the Zurich Airport, take the tram no. 10 and get off at “ETH/Universitätsspital”. The journey takes around 30 minutes.
Visit the ETH Zurich website to find out more on how to get to the ETH Zurich Zentrum campus.
Due to the generous funding by Volkswagen Foundation we are able to offer a limited number of travel grants to researchers whose submissions are accepted for the symposium (presenters of talks or posters at the main symposium, workshop or tutorial organizers, accepted participants of doctoral consortium and dataset challenge).
Travel grant recipients will be selected based on academic excellence, financial needs and diversity (e.g. gender, geographical and disciplinary diversity).
To apply for a travel grant please send an email with the subject “Travel Grant” to css.eurosymposium@gmail.com including the following information: a) your submission number in EasyChair or the title of your submitted workshop/tutorial, b) your contact details, c) your motivation for the grant application and d) whether you will still attend the symposium without a travel grant.
Travel grants will be awarded as lump sums, the amount to be awarded will be based on the country of the awardee’s affiliation.
Grants will be paid out after the conference.
The grants aim to especially support attendees with limited travel resources and attendees from countries where computational social science is not yet well established. We acknowledge that there may be more meritorious applications than we will be able to award and support.
Deadline for travel grant applications is extended to May 20th, 2019 (for all submission types). Late applications cannot be considered.
Letters of support can be requested by accepted European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science authors or registrants with a completed registration with payment. If you are attending the European Symposium and require a letter of support, please send the following information in an email with the subject “Visa Support” to css.eurosymposium@gmail.com:
ETH Zurich
Zentrum
Rämistrasse 101
8092 Zurich
Switzerland
