Conference Agenda
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Session Overview | |
Location: Room 125 |
Date: Wednesday, 25/June/2025 | |
8:00am - 9:40am |
OS-83: Social networks and health among multiply marginalized populations Location: Room 125 Chair: Cho-Hee Shrader Chair: Peng Wang Chair: Martha Tillson A co-occurrence network analysis of the Refugees’ mental health research University of Bristol, United Kingdom 8:20am - 8:40am Assessing predictors of enacted stigma in relational dyads of people living with HIV in Uganda 1: Indiana University School of Public Health, United States of America; 2: RAND Corporation 8:40am - 9:00am Improving the surveillance system of Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) in Nigeria, using network tools to describe disease propagation and estimate the effect of missing information 1: CIRAD, France; 2: NVRI, Nigeria; 3: ISRA, Senegal; 4: ANSES, France; 5: University of Virginia, USA 9:00am - 9:20am Social network turnover and mental health in rural South Africa 1: University College London, United Kingdom; 2: Africa Health Research Institute, South Africa; 3: Stellenbosch University, South Africa |
10:00am - 11:40am |
OS-7: Artificial Academia: Exploring the Risks and Hopes for Artificial Intelligence in Science Location: Room 125 Chair: Antoine Hugo Houssard Chair: Sylvain Fontaine Chair: Floriana Gargiulo Research Networks of Artificial Intelligence Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombia 10:20am - 10:40am AI-Assisted Tools in Bibliometric Network Analysis National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russian Federation 10:40am - 11:00am Patterns of bibliographic diversity in post-2022 publications on "LLMs" and "ChatGPT" 1: Northwestern University, United States of America; 2: Arizona State University, United States of America; 3: Università degli studi di Trieste, Italy 11:00am - 11:20am The ethos of science as a category that controls the development of AI. Cracow University of Economics, Poland 11:20am - 11:40am The Influence of Trust Networks on Students' Perceptions proficiency of Artificially Intelligent Assistants The University of Melbourne, Australia |
1:00pm - 2:40pm |
OS-92: Structure, agency, and justice in research using social network analysis on Post-Secondary Education Location: Room 125 Chair: Trevion Shamir Henderson Chair: Paris Wicker Chair: Michael Geoffrey Brown Chair: Carolina Banuelos An inductive typology of university student service member/veteran egocentric networks University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America 1:20pm - 1:40pm Conceptualizing Race in Networks Studies: Context-Sensitive Categories for Mapping Socioacademic Relationships Tufts University, United States of America 1:40pm - 2:00pm Keystone Agents: Peers who Facilitate Learning in a Network Ecology University of Michigan, United States of America 2:00pm - 2:20pm The Alters that Support First Generation Latine University Student Retention Colorado State University, United States of America |
Date: Thursday, 26/June/2025 | |
8:00am - 9:40am |
OS-75: Social Movement Organizations and Policy Networks Location: Room 125 Chair: David Benjamin Tindall Chair: Mario Diani WHO DRIVES THE GAME? THE ROLE OF POLICY BROKERS IN THE PUBLIC POLICY PROCESS, THE CASE OF NIGER 1: LADYSS, France; 2: LEREPS, France; 3: IRD, France; 4: LAM, France 8:20am - 8:40am How do Alliances Form and Fail? Power Imbalance in Social Movement Coalitions The Ohio State University, United States of America 8:40am - 9:00am New insights into social movements from temporal network analysis LIP6 - CNRS - Sorbonne Université, France 9:00am - 9:20am The Role of Civil Society Organizations in Marginal Areas: A Network Approach 1: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy; 2: Aix-Marseille Université; 3: Polytechnic University of Milan; 4: University of Helsinki |
10:00am - 11:40am |
OS-216: Social Movement Organizations and Policy Networks 2 Location: Room 125 Chair: David Benjamin Tindall Chair: Mario Diani Spread the Word - Spatial Dynamics of Information Diffusion in Antifascist Telegram Networks Technical University of Munich, Germany |
1:00pm - 2:40pm |
OS-76: Social Capital themed session Location: Room 125 Chair: Heather McGregor The Impact of Soft Skills On the Modern Workplace and Social Capital Network Development Southern New Hampshire University, United States of America 1:20pm - 1:40pm “Bringing People Together”: Social Capital and the Integration Strategies of the Hungarian St. Stephen’s Ball in Montréal University of Debrecen, Hungary 1:40pm - 2:00pm Does Social Capital Matter for Subjective Well-Being in a Least Developed Country Context? Using A Novel Pseudo-Panel Approach 1: Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China); 2: University of Gondar, Ethiopia; 3: Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia 2:00pm - 2:20pm Social Capital Activation in Uncertainty: a model of humanitarian responses in natural disasters Hanken School of Economics, Finland 2:20pm - 2:40pm Social Capital, Social Structures, and Triads 1: Institute for Social Capital; 2: Michigan State University |
3:40pm - 5:20pm |
OS-191: Social Capital themed session 2 Location: Room 125 Chair: Heather McGregor The Impact of Resident Interaction, Residential Context, and Contact Assets on Place Attachment 1: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan; 2: Master’s Program in Service Engineering, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan; 3: Institute of Systems and Information Engineering, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan; 4: Tsukuba Institute for Advanced Research, Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan The Ontology of ‘Bridging Social Capital’: Connecting Communities for Social Inclusion 1: People Beyond Borders; 2: University of Illinois at Chicago, USA; 3: Asia Initiatives; 4: The International Institute of Migration and Development |
Date: Friday, 27/June/2025 | |
8:00am - 9:40am |
OS-213: Social Capital themed session 3 Location: Room 125 Chair: Heather McGregor Walking school buses in the city of Ferrara. A qualitative analysis through social capital theory. 1: University of Ferrara, Italy; 2: University of Ferrara, Italy The relationship between social capital and corporate operational efficiency: The moderating effect of diversity ESCP Business School, United Kingdom Trust measurement and the impact of inequality on interpersonal trust. University of Siegen, Germany Trust Without Connection? How Social Class Segregation Affects Social Trust Nuffield College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
10:00am - 11:40am |
OS-41: Network Approaches to Attitudes and Beliefs Location: Room 125 Chair: Claudia Zucca Chair: Lorien Jasny Chair: Mario Diani Mapping the Belief System of Populist Attitudes in South Korea Seoul National University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) How large-scale public health measures shape personal networks? Conflicts and the transformation of relationships during the Covid-19 crisis University of Toulouse 2, France Affect and Belief System: Tracking the Historical Interplay of Emotions, Identities, and Opinions Rutgers University, United States of America Belief Systems and Constraint: Individual Level Change and Belief Network Structural Effects University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America Constructing semantic networks of happiness and unhappiness based on word-association task 1: University of Tokyo; 2: Tohoku University; 3: The Institute of Statistical Mathematics; 4: St.Andrew's University; 5: Nagoya University of Commerce and Business |
Date: Saturday, 28/June/2025 | |
8:00am - 9:40am |
OS-4: Alcohol and Substance Use in Social Networks Location: Room 125 Chair: Kathryn M Barker Chair: Jessica M. Perkins Friends, crushes and substance use: A social network analysis of adolescent peer influence 1: University of Groningen, Netherlands, The; 2: Universidad Mayor, Chile 8:20am - 8:40am Caring Networks in Tanzanian Heroin Use and Recovery 1: University of Texas Health Science Center, SPH, United States of America; 2: University of Dodoma, College of Education, Tanzania 8:40am - 9:00am Influence of Exposure to E-cigarette and Cannabis Posts on TikTok on Adolescent Tie Formation: A Longitudinal Social Network Analysis Using RSiena University of Southern California, United States of America 9:00am - 9:20am Integrating latent class and social network analyses to understand co-occurring health behaviours: a methodological investigation 1: University of Glasgow, United Kingdom; 2: University of Limerick, Ireland 9:20am - 9:40am Peer-Perceived Substance Use Association with Adolescents’ Friendship and Popularity Networks 1: Society and Health Research Center, Universidad Mayor, Chile, Chile; 2: University of Groningen; 3: University of Turku; 4: Universidad de la Frontera, Chile |
10:00am - 11:40am |
OS-114: Alcohol and Substance Use in Social Networks 2 Location: Room 125 Chair: Kathryn M Barker Chair: Jessica M. Perkins The peer dimension of young people’s substance use behaviour: a mixed methods social network analysis among senior high school students 1: Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Canada; 2: Department of Social and Behavioural Science, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana 10:20am - 10:40am Understanding Substance Use in Alaskan Native Youth: A Social Network Perspective 1: University of Colorado School of Public Health; 2: University of Michigan School of Social Work; 3: University of Illinois Chicago 10:40am - 11:00am Social Network Influences on Substance Use among Adolescents 1: University of Southern California, United States of America; 2: Harvard University, United States of America |
1:00pm - 2:40pm |
OS-168: Network Approaches to Attitudes and Beliefs 2 Location: Room 125 Chair: Claudia Zucca Chair: Lorien Jasny Chair: Mario Diani From Nuance to Polarization? Network Analysis of Evolving American Belief Structures Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America La Dolce Vita: networking Habits, Attitudes and Behaviours of Italians 1: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy; 2: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy Leveraging Large Language Models For Analyzing Belief Space At Scale 1: New York University, United States of America; 2: University of Chicago, United States of America Mapping Types of Opinion Polarization: Belief Networks and Political Environment across 89 Countries in 2017-2022 Fudan University, China, People's Republic of Mental models and group discussion in adaptive rangeland management University of Exeter, United Kingdom The nascent network of patent judges at the Unified European Patent Court 1: LMU Munich, Germany; 2: SciencesPo, France |
3:00pm - 4:40pm |
OS-169: Network Approaches to Attitudes and Beliefs 3 Location: Room 125 Chair: Claudia Zucca Chair: Lorien Jasny Chair: Mario Diani Methodological Advancement in Causal Loops Diagrams Data Collection and Analysis: A Network Approach Tilburg Universtity, Netherlands, The Preventing Smoking through Advocacy Coalitions: Insights from Ego Network Analysis UCLouvain, Belgium The dynamics of personal belief networks 1: Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria; 2: Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA; 3: Vermont Complex Systems Institute, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA The Ideological Structure of American Belief Systems University of Toronto, Canada The Innovative Use of Ethical Scenarios in Values Education: The Impact of Social Networking among Young Students Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China) |
Date: Sunday, 29/June/2025 | |
8:20am - 10:00am |
OS-42: Network Change, health, and Wellbeing Location: Room 125 Chair: Soli Dubash Social Network Intervention to Improve Blood Pressure Control After Stroke: Lessons from the TEAMS-BP Randomized Clinical Trial 1: Harvard Medical School; 2: Brigham and Women's Hospital Characterizing social network structure, composition, and support among young adult cancer patients 1: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, United States of America; 2: Harvard Medical School, United States of America; 3: Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, United States of America; 4: Department of Population and Public Health Sciences University of Southern California, United States of America; 5: Department of Epidemiology University of California Irvine, United States of America; 6: Children's Hospital Los Angeles, United States of America; 7: Department of Pediatrics, University of Southern California, United States of America; 8: Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, United States of America Health Events and Their Varied Impact of Personal Networks 1: University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès / LISST / Sciences Po Toulouse, France; 2: Bar-Ilan University, Israel Leveraging Social Networks to Enhance Weight Loss: Baseline Findings from the ROBUST Clinical Trial 1: University of Southern California, United States of America; 2: Weill Cornell Medicine, United States of America; 3: U.S. Food and Drug Administration, United States of America No one person or institution can do it alone ISARIC, United Kingdom |
10:20am - 12:00pm |
OS-206: Network Change, health, and Wellbeing 2 Location: Room 125 Chair: Soli Dubash Mitigate or Amplify? Social Integration and Health Disparities between Never- and Ever-Married Adults Vanderbilt University, United States of America Relational determinants of well-being support for marginalized university students University at Buffalo, United States of America |