A conference sponsored by the USC Center for International Studies and USC Marshall, USC East Asian Studies Center, and USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture. 

January 11-12, 2019 – Los Angeles, California, USA

University of Southern California, Popovich Hall (JKP), 102

Organized by Saori N. Katada, USC School of International Relations, and Nan Jia, USC Marshall School of Business

Please register by Jan. 4, 2019.

Friday, Jan., 11, 2019

1:30–2:15 p.m.  

Keynote Presentation

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Text

Arthur Spirling

New York University, Dept. of Politics and Data Science

2:15–2:30 p.m.   Coffee Break

2:30–3:15 p.m.   

Quantitative Text Analysis in Japanese

Amy Catalinac

New York University, Dept. of Politics and Data Science

3:15–4 p.m.       

Comparing Audio and Video Propaganda in French and Chinese

Erin Baggott and Brett Carter

USC School of International Relations

4–4:30 p.m.   Coffee Break

4:30–5:15 p.m.   

Protection on Sale: Evidence from Legislative Deliberations in Japan 

Gabrielle Cheung

USC Dept. of Political Science and International Relations

5:15–6 p.m.

Does Chinese Social Media Play an Effective Monitoring Role against the Biased Reporting of Corporate News by State-controlled Traditional Media?

T.J. Wong

USC Leventhal School of Accounting

Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019

8–9 a.m.   Breakfast

9–9:45 a.m.

Intentional Control of Type I Error over Unconscious Data Distortion: A Neyman-Pearson Approach to Text Classification

Xin Tong

USC Marshall School of Business

9:45–10:30 a.m.

Mapping the Allegiance of Authoritarian Media in Vietnam

Duy Trinh

UC San Diego, Dept. of Political Science

10:30–11 a.m.   Coffee Break

11:00–11:45 a.m.                  

From Riot Police to Tweets: How World Leaders Use Social Media During Contentious Politics

Pablo Barbera*

London School of Economics, Department of Methodology

*Co-authored with Evgeniia Iakhnis, Thomas Zeitzoff and Anita Gohdes

11:45 a.m.–1:30 p.m.   Lunch & Round Table Discussion                        

Discussants

Erin Baggott, USC School of International Relations

Pablo Barbera, London School of Economics, Dept. of Methodology

Brett Carter, USC School of International Relations

Amy Catalinac, New York University, Dept. of Politics and Data Science

Gabrielle Cheung, USC Dept. of Political Science and International Relations

Nan Jia, USC Marshall School of Business

Saori N. Katada, USC School of International Relations

Arthur Spirling, New York University, Dept. of Politics and Data Science

Xin Tong, USC Marshall School of Business

Duy Trinh, UC San Diego, Department of Political Science

T.J. Wong, USC Leventhal School of Accounting

Yanhui Wu (TBC), USC Marshall School of Business

Lucy Xia (TBC), Stanford University, Dept. of Statistics

Contact Information 

For more information, contact cis@dornsife.usc.