Monday, March 21
9:00-10:30am
•Invited: The impact of social media on news consumption (Athey)
•Regular:The Spread of Cooperation: Peer Effects in Gift Giving (Kizilcec)
break
11:00-12:30pm
•Invited: Estimating peer effects without randomized experiments: Confounding bias and high-dimensional modeling (Eckles)
•Regular: Identifying social influence in online activity feeds: Preference-based Matched Estimation (Sharma)
lunch
2:00-3:30pm
•Invited: Subtle and not-so-subtle sources of bias in observational studies that use social media (Culotta)
•Regular: Estimating the causal impact of recommendation systems from observational data (Sharma)
break
4:00-5:30pm
•Invited: Antisocial Behavior in Online Discussion Communities (Leskovec)
•Regular: Actually, It’s About Ethics in Computational Social Science: A Multi-party Risk-Benefit Framework for Online Community Research (Keegan)
6:00-7:00pm
AAAI Spring Symposium Reception
Tuesday, March 22
9:00-10:30am
•Invited: Towards Participatory Data Analysis of Big Crisis Data (Castillo)
•Regular: Towards Real-Time Measurement of Public Epidemic Awareness: Monitoring Influenza Awareness through Twitter (Smith)
break
11:00-12:30pm
•Regular: Geolocated Twitter Panels to Study the Impact of Events (Zhang)
•Regular: Using Propensity Score Matching to Understand the Relationship Between Online Health Information Sources and Vaccination Sentiment (Rehman)
•Regular: Reducing confounding bias in observational studies that use text classification (Landeiro)
Lunch
2:00pm-3:30pm
Poster Session
4:00-5:30pm
•Invited: Causal Inference without Control Units (Glynn)
•Regular: Emoticons vs. Emojis on Twitter: A Causal Inference Approach (Pavalanathan)
6:00-7:00pm
AAAI Spring Symposium Plenary Session
Wednesday, March 23
9:00-10:30am
•Invited: A System for Extracting the Outcomes of Personal Experiences from Social Media Timelines (Kıcıman)
•Regular: Structural Causes of Bias in Crowd-derived Geographic Information: Towards a Holistic Understanding (Johnson)
break
11:00am-12:30pm
•Regular: The Monetization of Information Broadcasts: A Natural Experiment on an Online Social Network (Shmargad)
•Panel Discussion: TBD