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Conference Agenda

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Daily Overview

Session

Agent-Based Models with Social Networks

Time:

Wednesday, 26/Aug/2026:

11:30am - 1:00pm

Session Chair: Annie Waldherr

Location: Calman CLC203

Ken Wade lecture theatre, second floor (260)

Presentations

11:30am - 11:50am

Agent-based models of social media: A scoping review and research agenda

Aytalina Kulichkina¹, Daisuke Nakamura¹, Taehee Kim², Jula Lühring¹, David Garcia², Dongyoung Sohn³, Annie Waldherr¹

1: University of Vienna, Austria; 2: University of Konstanz, Germany; 3: Hanyang University, South Korea

11:50am - 12:05pm

Attention Patterns of Social Issue Emergence on Social Media: an Agent-Based Model

Kateryna Maikovska

University of Vienna, Austria

12:05pm - 12:20pm

Modelling Social Bots on Social Media Platforms and Its Impact on Data Quality

Cristina Chueca Del Cerro¹, Yannik Peters², Johannes Breuer^3,4, Sebastian Stier², Felix Schmidt², Frank Mangold²

1: The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom; 2: GESIS - Leibniz Institut for Social Sciences, Germany; 3: Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS), Germany; 4: University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

12:20pm - 12:40pm

"If It Looks Like a User": Measuring Real-Time Moderation Effects via Social Media Simulation

Enrico Verdolotti^1,2, Gianluca Nogara², Luca Luceri³, Silvia Giordano²

1: USI, Switzerland; 2: SUPSI, DTI-ISIN, Switzerland; 3: USC Information Science Institute, US

12:40pm - 1:00pm

Using ABM to inform platform regulators

Max van Drunen¹, Natali Helberger¹, Aytalina Kulichkina², Annie Waldherr²

1: University of Amsterdam, Institute for Information Law; 2: University of Vienna, Department of Communication