Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Room 125
Date: Wednesday, 25/June/2025
8:00am
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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
 
8:00am - 8:20am

A co-occurrence network analysis of the Refugees’ mental health research

Manal Etemadi

University of Bristol, United Kingdom



8:20am - 8:40am

Assessing predictors of enacted stigma in relational dyads of people living with HIV in Uganda

Hank Green1, Nipher Malika2, Laura Bogart2, Glenn Wagner2

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

Asma Mesdour1, Sandra Ijoma2, Muhammad-Bashir Bolajoko2, Mamadou Ciss3, Eric CARDINALE4, Stephen Eubank5, Mathieu Andraud4, Andrea Apolloni1

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

Guy Harling1,2, Dorottya Hoór1, Xanthe Hunt2,3, Vuyiswa Nxumalo2

1: University College London, United Kingdom; 2: Africa Health Research Institute, South Africa; 3: Stellenbosch University, South Africa

10:00am
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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
 
10:00am - 10:20am

Research Networks of Artificial Intelligence

Oscar M. Granados

Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombia



10:20am - 10:40am

AI-Assisted Tools in Bibliometric Network Analysis

Daria Maltseva

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"

Moses Boudourides1, Evan Piepho2, Amin Gino Fabbrucci Barbagli3

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.

Magdalena Zdun

Cracow University of Economics, Poland



11:20am - 11:40am

The Influence of Trust Networks on Students' Perceptions proficiency of Artificially Intelligent Assistants

Yutong Bu, Andrew Melatos, Robin Evans

The University of Melbourne, Australia

1:00pm
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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
 
1:00pm - 1:20pm

An inductive typology of university student service member/veteran egocentric networks

Ross J. Benbow, You-Geon Lee, Xin Xie

University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States of America



1:20pm - 1:40pm

Conceptualizing Race in Networks Studies: Context-Sensitive Categories for Mapping Socioacademic Relationships

Trevion Shamir Henderson, Clara Mabour

Tufts University, United States of America



1:40pm - 2:00pm

Keystone Agents: Peers who Facilitate Learning in a Network Ecology

Michael Geoffrey Brown

University of Michigan, United States of America



2:00pm - 2:20pm

The Alters that Support First Generation Latine University Student Retention

Carolina Banuelos

Colorado State University, United States of America

Date: Thursday, 26/June/2025
8:00am
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9:40am
OS-75: Social Movement Organizations and Policy Networks
Location: Room 125
Chair: David Benjamin Tindall
Chair: Mario Diani
 
8:00am - 8:20am

WHO DRIVES THE GAME? THE ROLE OF POLICY BROKERS IN THE PUBLIC POLICY PROCESS, THE CASE OF NIGER

Juliette Schlegel1, Thibaud Deguilhem1,2, Alain Piveteau3, Jean-Philippe Berrou4, Djibo Ousmane4

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

Steven Bao

The Ohio State University, United States of America



8:40am - 9:00am

New insights into social movements from temporal network analysis

Bastien LEGAY, Matthieu LATAPY

LIP6 - CNRS - Sorbonne Université, France



9:00am - 9:20am

The Role of Civil Society Organizations in Marginal Areas: A Network Approach

Stefano Ghinoi1,4, Giorgia Trasciani2, Ludovica Piergiovanni3

1: University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy; 2: Aix-Marseille Université; 3: Polytechnic University of Milan; 4: University of Helsinki

10:00am
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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

Janine Schröder, Daniel Matter, Jürgen Pfeffer

Technical University of Munich, Germany

1:00pm
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2:40pm
OS-76: Social Capital themed session
Location: Room 125
Chair: Heather McGregor
 
1:00pm - 1:20pm

The Impact of Soft Skills On the Modern Workplace and Social Capital Network Development

Gina Neugebauer, Rick Mask

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

Éva Huszti, Balázs Venkovits

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

Kelemu Fenta Gebeyehu1,2, Yuying Tong1, Migbaru Workneh3, Lei Jin1

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

Claire Travers

Hanken School of Economics, Finland



2:20pm - 2:40pm

Social Capital, Social Structures, and Triads

Tristan Claridge1, Lindon Robison2

1: Institute for Social Capital; 2: Michigan State University

3:40pm
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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

Aya Saito1,2, Eiichi Sakurai1, Yukihiko Okada3,4

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

Susanna Mitra1,4, Arkalgud Ramaprasad2, Prerna Rathi1,3, Gowrish R.3

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
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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.

Giuseppe Rocco1, Susanna Mancinelli2

1: University of Ferrara, Italy; 2: University of Ferrara, Italy



The relationship between social capital and corporate operational efficiency: The moderating effect of diversity

Gladie LUI

ESCP Business School, United Kingdom



Trust measurement and the impact of inequality on interpersonal trust.

Jacob Spanke

University of Siegen, Germany



Trust Without Connection? How Social Class Segregation Affects Social Trust

Till Hovestadt

Nuffield College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

10:00am
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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

Seula Lee, Yoonyoung Na, Hyeona Park

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

Béatrice MILARD, Renata HOSNEDLOVA

University of Toulouse 2, France



Affect and Belief System: Tracking the Historical Interplay of Emotions, Identities, and Opinions

Duhui Lee

Rutgers University, United States of America



Belief Systems and Constraint: Individual Level Change and Belief Network Structural Effects

William Holtkamp

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America



Constructing semantic networks of happiness and unhappiness based on word-association task

Hiroki Takikawa1, Zeyu Lyu2, Aguru Ishibashi3, Sachiko Yasuda4, Takaharu Saito5

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
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9:40am
OS-4: Alcohol and Substance Use in Social Networks
Location: Room 125
Chair: Kathryn M Barker
Chair: Jessica M. Perkins
 
8:00am - 8:20am

Friends, crushes and substance use: A social network analysis of adolescent peer influence

Melissa González1, Diego Palacios2, René Veenstra1

1: University of Groningen, Netherlands, The; 2: Universidad Mayor, Chile



8:20am - 8:40am

Caring Networks in Tanzanian Heroin Use and Recovery

Sheryl McCurdy1, Eric Jones1, Theodora Bali2

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

Julia Vassey

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

Dylan Lewis1, Srebrenka Letina1,2, Emily Long1, Mark McCann1

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

Diego Palacios1, Ana Karen Espinoza1, Melissa Gonzalez2, Daniela Chavez3, Roman Francisca4, Rene Veenstra2

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
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11:40am
OS-114: Alcohol and Substance Use in Social Networks 2
Location: Room 125
Chair: Kathryn M Barker
Chair: Jessica M. Perkins
 
10:00am - 10:20am

The peer dimension of young people’s substance use behaviour: a mixed methods social network analysis among senior high school students

Abdul Cadri1, Tracie Barnett1, Tibor Schuster1, Emmanuel Asampong2, Alayne Adams1

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

Madeleine Mason1, Jerreed Ivanich1, Katie Schultz2, Shuwen Zhang3

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

Thomas Valente1, Kristina Miljkovic1, Jessica Barrington-Trimis1, Sarah Piombo2

1: University of Southern California, United States of America; 2: Harvard University, United States of America

1:00pm
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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

Scott Leo Renshaw, Kathleen Carley

Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America



La Dolce Vita: networking Habits, Attitudes and Behaviours of Italians

Teodora Erika Uberti1, Emanuela Mora2

1: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy; 2: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy



Leveraging Large Language Models For Analyzing Belief Space At Scale

Byungkyu Lee1, Junsol Kim2

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

Steve Liming Meng, Yizhao Song, Felicia Feng Tian

Fudan University, China, People's Republic of



Mental models and group discussion in adaptive rangeland management

Lorien Jasny

University of Exeter, United Kingdom



The nascent network of patent judges at the Unified European Patent Court

Johannes Glückler1, Jakob Hoffmann1, Marius Zipf1, Emmanuel Lazega2

1: LMU Munich, Germany; 2: SciencesPo, France

3:00pm
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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

Claudia Zucca

Tilburg Universtity, Netherlands, The



Preventing Smoking through Advocacy Coalitions: Insights from Ego Network Analysis

Vincent Lorant, Pierre Laloux, Pietro Coletti

UCLouvain, Belgium



The dynamics of personal belief networks

Peter Steiglechner1, Victor Møller Poulsen1, Mirta Galesic1,2,3, Henrik Olsson1,2

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

Firdaous Sbaï

University of Toronto, Canada



The Innovative Use of Ethical Scenarios in Values Education: The Impact of Social Networking among Young Students

Wayne CHAN

Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)

Date: Sunday, 29/June/2025
8:20am
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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

Amar Dhand1,2, Katherine Crum1,2, George Usmanov1,2, Niteesh K. Choudhry1,2

1: Harvard Medical School; 2: Brigham and Women's Hospital



Characterizing social network structure, composition, and support among young adult cancer patients

Sarah E Piombo1,2, Kayla de la Haye3, Britni Belcher4, Jonathan Kaslander4, Junhan Cho4, Joel E Milam5, David R Freyer6,7, Gino K In8, Kimberly A Miller4

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

Renáta Hosnedlová1, Shira Offer2

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

Kayla de la Haye1, Natasha Wasim1, Caitlin Potter2, Briana Phillips Bell2, Jaleel Poole2, Anika Lewis2, Mussarat Nahid2, Paul Christos2, Katie Hootman2, Ginger Winston3, Erica Phillips2

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

Gail Linday Carson

ISARIC, United Kingdom

10:20am
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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

Lijun Song, Zhe Zhang

Vanderbilt University, United States of America



Relational determinants of well-being support for marginalized university students

Paris Wicker

University at Buffalo, United States of America