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Accepting Submissions: Psychology of Media & Technology Preconference

  • 1.  Accepting Submissions: Psychology of Media & Technology Preconference

    Posted 11-03-2017 03:12
    Dear Colleagues,

    We would like to invite you to the Psychology of Media & Technology Preconference at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2018. The preconference will take place on Thursday, March 1, 2018 in Atlanta, GA. In this preconference, researchers from psychology, communication science, data science, organizational behavior, and industry explore big data, social media, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality both as tools for psychological research and as factors influencing human cognition, emotion, and behavior.

    By Nov 15, 2017, you can submit a poster or a data blitz talk for the Psychology of Media & Technology Preconference. Two free registrations for the entire conference including the preconference are available for exceptional submissions. You can find more details below or on our webpage: meeting.spsp.org/preconferences/media-psychology

    We are particularly proud to present such a stellar and diverse line-up of speakers at this year's preconference.

    The Organizing Committee

    Kostadin Kushlev, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia (kushlevk@gmail.com)

    Gabriella Harari, Department of Communication, Stanford University (gabriella.harari@gmail.com)

    Brad Okdie, Department of Psychology, Ohio State University (okdie.2@osu.edu)


    Kostadin Kushlev PhD
    University of Virginia
    www.kushlev.com


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    Speakers

    Jakki Bailey, School of Information, University of Texas, Austin

    Jim Blascovich, Psychology and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara. 

    Maarten Bos, Disney Research, Pittsburgh

    Munmun De Choudhury, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech

    Jesse Fox, School of Communication, The Ohio State University

    Rosanna Guadagno, School of Arts, University of Texas, Dallas

    Michal Kosinski, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

    David Pizarro, Department of Psychology, Cornell University

    Jamie Pennebaker, Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin

    Andrew Przybylski, Dept. of Experimental Psychology & Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University                                                          

    Andrea Stevenson Won, Department of Communication, Cornell University

     

    REGISTRATION:  Register for both SPSP and this preconference to receive a $25 discount. Last year, we had over 120 registrants across the Psychology of Technology and Media Psychology preconferences. This year, the combined conference is capped at 60 attendees, so we encourage you to register soon. 

    CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Emerging scholars (graduate students, post docs, and those within 5 years of receiving their Ph.D.) are encouraged to submit an abstract not to exceed 250 words for consideration as a poster or a data-blitz talk not to exceed 4 minutes. Submissions should be emailed to Kostadin Kushlev (kushlevk@gmail.com) and must be submitted by November 15th, 2017. In your submission, please include the following:

    1. Title of your talk/poster

    2. Names of all authors. 

    3. Contact information & current title/position of the presenting author.

    4. Abstract of no more than 250 words.

    5. Type of submission: poster or data blitz talk; if you are submitting a data-blitz talk, specify whether you are willing to present your submission in the form of a poster.

    6. Specify whether you have limited funding for conference travel. 

    All presenters will be considered for one of two complementary conference registrations. Awardees will be selected based on the quality of their submissions, but priority will be given to applicants with limited funding.

    We look forward to seeing you in Atlanta!

     

    Schedule 

    8:00am – 8:45 am: Continental Breakfast 

    8:45am - 10:00pm: Robots, Algorithms and Computational Methods

    Michal Kosinski: Computational Physiognomy: Algorithms for Understanding Facial Expressions

    Maarten Bos: Customization and Personalization at Scale

    David Pizarro: Trust and Blame for Androids and Algorithms

          

    10:00am - 11:00am: Poster Session (with coffee break)

    11:00am - 12:15pm: Social Media 

    Munmun De Choudhury: Revolutionizing Mental Health with Social Media

    Rosanna Guadagno: Social Influence in Social Media: Examining Fake News in the Presidential Election 

    Jesse Fox: The Dark Side of Social Media: Social and Psychological Implications 


    12:15pm - 1:30pm: Lunch (with networking opportunity grouped by topics: VR, AI, Social Media)


    1:30 pm - 2:45pm: Virtual Reality 

    Jim Blascovich: Overview and Introduction to the Psychology of Virtual Reality

    Andrea Stevenson Won: Self-Perception in VR Environments

    Jakki Bailey: Children's Experiences in VR Environments


    2:45pm - 3:00pm: Coffee Break


    3:00-3:30pm: Data Blitz


    3:30pm - 4:30pm: Big Questions and Ideas in Psychology of Media and Technology

    Andrew Przybylski: Using Open Science Methodology to Address the Big Questions of Media Psychology 

    Jamie Pennebaker: Media & Language Analysis