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Full papers will be listed here as we receive them. IPP2018 attendees are listed in bold. The deadline to submit to the conference special issue is 29 October 2018.

Track A: Citizens, Politics and Government

A1: Campaigning I [Thurs 11:00-12:30, SR7]

Itzel González Sandoval: Elections: In Between the Certainty of Old Practices and the Chaos of New Technologies. Analyzing Online Campaigns with Text Mining Chen Sabag Ben-Porat: Social Network Usage Patterns of Parliamentary Assistants as Stand-Ins for their Legislator in Israel, Germany, and the U.S. – and the Public's Attitudes to this in Israel Ksenia Tsyganova, Dmitri Tsyganov: Online pre-election campaign by likes and polls

A2: Campaigning II: Targetting and Persuasion [Thurs 13:30-15:00, SR7]

Tom Dobber: The Effects of Political Microtargeting Simon Kruschinski, André Haller: Data-Driven Discrimination? An empirical analysis of political micro-targeting's promises and concerns for political parties, the electorate and public discourse Martin Glick: Changing Political Views With Adaptive A.I.

A3: Campaigning III: Political Bots [Thurs 15:30-17:00, SR7]

Rose Marie Santini, Debora G. Salles, Giulia Tucci, Charbelly Estrella, Carlos Eduardo Barros, Danilo Carvalho, Camyla Terra, Daniela Orofino, Kenzo Seto: Online impersonators: who are they and what do they do? A bot ethnography on Rio de Janeiro’s 2016 municipal elections Olga Boichak, Sam Jackson, Jeff Hemsley, Rebekah Tromble and Sikana Tanupabrungsun: Bot Interventions: Identifying Patterns of Orchestrated Activity Across Election Campaigns on Twitter Valeriya Vasilkova, Natalya Legostaeva, Vladimir Radushevskii: Botnets as an election campaign tool: a methodology for identification and analysis of network publication activity

A4: Politicians and Citizens [Thurs 17:10-18:45, SR7]

Nikki Soo: MPs and the Potential for Democratic Renewal in Digital Constituency Life Sharon Haleva-Amir: On Politicians, Citizens and Words in between: The Illusion of Equalized Discourse on the Facebook Platform George Boynton, Glenn Richardson: Political Leadership Emerging in the Twitter Communication Stream [Part 1, Part 2]

A5: Citizenship and Participation [Friday 09:00-10:30, SR7]

Erhardt Graeff: The Need for Empowerment-based Design in Civic Technology Louise Jørring, António Valentim, Pablo Porten-Cheé: Mapping the Field: A Literature Review on Digital Citizenship Guy Paltieli: What Does Political Participation Mean? Prodromos Tsiavos, Theodoros Karounos, Petros Stefaneas: (Un)learning from Athens: Architectures of e-Democracy in the European Global South

A6: Government and Citizens I (Platforms) [Friday 11:00-12:30, SR7]

Tobias Escher, Bastian Rottinghaus: Local government platforms for citizen participation and their effects on legitimacy: evidence from a comparative case study in Germany Daria Gritsenko: Is "Government as a Platform" democratic by design? The case of the Active Citizen Platform in Moscow, Russia Han-Teng Liao: The role of platform in China's consultative style of governance: A meta-analysis of the role of Internet platforms

A7: Government and Citizens II [Friday 14:40-16:10, SR7]

Bernd Firuz Kramer: Via app from survey to decision? The case of Tübingen and why it could change democratic theory Nic DePaula, Teresa Harrison: The EPA under the Obama and Trump administrations: Using LDA topic modeling to discover themes, issues and policy agendas on Twitter Martin Karlsson, Magnus Adenskog, Joachim Åström: Political scandal, online participation and the rebuilding of institutional legitimacy: The case of the Estonian Citizens' Assembly

A8: Citizen (Dis)Engagement [Friday 16:30-18:00, SR7]

Neil McNulty: The Internet’s Role in the Recent Revival of the SNP and Labour Party Francesca Vassallo: The Power of the Internet? Millennials, Baby Boomers and Voting in Europe Francesco Bailo: Internet-mediated recruitment networks of political movements: Empirical and theoretical approach Morihiro Ogasahara, Shoko Kiyohara: Did Japanese voters change their passive attitude toward Internet election campaigns? The 2017 Japanese Lower House election

Track B: The Information Environment

B1: Journalism I [Thurs 11:00-12:30, TLT]

Antonello Bocchino: Middle Class Crisis and the "Sharing Industries" as the Main Flywheels of the Produsage of Post-truth Political Communication on Social Media Fabian Falck, Julian Marstaller, Niklas Stoehr, Soeren Maucher, Jeana Ren, Andreas Thalhammer, Achim Rettinger, Rudi Studer: Sentiment Political Compass: A Data-driven Analysis of Online Newspapers regarding Political Orientation Andrew Ross, Delia Dumitrescu: "Vox Twitterati": Investigating the Effects of Social Media Exemplars in Online News Articles

B2: Journalism II: News Values [Thurs 13:30-15:00, TLT]

Pihla Toivanen, Matti Nelimarkka: Populist counter media and media ecology: sources cited in MV media Andrew Chadwick, Cristian Vaccari, Ben O'Loughlin: Do Tabloids Poison the Well of Social Media? Explaining Democratically Dysfunctional News Sharing Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer: Politics in online tabloids: searching for values in the voices of writers and commenters in the US, UK and Poland

B3: Journalism III: Fake News [Thurs 15:30-17:00, TLT]

Ana Azurmendi: Is Journalism still the "watchdog" of democracy? The European Court of Human Rights facing fake news in Social Media Chamil Rathnayake: Conceptualizing Satirical Fakes as a New Media Genre: An Attempt to Legitimize "Post-Truth Journalism" Linda Monsees: Fake News and the Future of Democratic Politics – Insights from Germany Ahmed Al-Rawi, Jacob Groshek, Li Zhang: What the fake? Assessing the extent of networked political spamming and bots in the propagation of #fakenews on Twitter

B4: Post-Truth Politics [Thurs 17:10-18:45, TLT]

Tricia Jenkins, Katie Kovarik, Addyson Jackson: The Russian Disinformation Dystopia: A Look at the 2018 US Presidential Election Niki Cheong: Of Troops and (Astro)Turf: The Malaysian Case Krishan Kuruppu: Social media and Security: Digital securitisation in a post-truth society Michael Jensen: Fake News and Social Media: The Communication Strategies of Russian Trolls

B5: Unsocial Media II: Radicalization [Friday 09:00-10:30, TLT]

Margeret Hall, Michael Logan, Sam Church, Gina Ligon and Doug Derrick: Computational Identification of Latent Radical Content from Online Social Media Matthew Crosston: Virtual Democracy and Jihadi Johns: Cognitive Disconnects and CVE Propaganda Dilshod Achilov, Ismail Budak Arpinar, Ugur Kursuncu: Using Semantic Analysis in Deconstructing Terrorist Propaganda Wars Online

B6: Unsocial Media III: Self-Censorship [Friday 11:00-12:30, TLT]

Elizabeth Dubois, Julia Szwarc: Self-censorship, Polarization, and the "Spiral of Silence" on Social Media Chloé Nurik: "Men are Scum": Self-regulation, hate speech, and gender-based censorship on Facebook Ying Miao: Protest to Populism: Managing Digital Dissent in China

B7: Social Media Regulation I [Friday 14:40-16:10, TLT]

Stefan Theil: Freedom of Expression on Social Media: Conceptual and Regulatory Challenges in Europe and the US Erik Bean: Industrial Age Advertising Solutions for a 21st Century Social Network Driven World Robert Wentrup, Efrat Daskal, Dan Shefet: Taming the internet trolls with an internet ombudsman

B8: Social Media Regulation II [Friday 16:30-18:00, TLT]

Martin Johannes Riedl: Holding Platforms Accountable: Content Moderation, Logan Paul, and Good Old Pathetic Dot Urbano Reviglio: The Daily Us: Legitimizing Public Service Media in the Age of Personalized and Commercialized Social Media

Track C: Fragments, Groups and Collectives

C1: What is Democracy? [Thurs 11:00-12:30, SR8]

Tatiana Shulga-Morskaya: Electronic Democracy: a Concept Under Construction Dannica Fleuss, Gary Schaal: Dystopia, Utopia, Realism? Epistemological Problems of a Valid Evaluation of Democratic Performance in a Digitalized World and How to Address Them Philip Dingeldey: The next Wave away from Democracy

C2: Polarization [Thurs 13:30-15:00, SR8]

Juan Carlos Medina Serrano, Morteza Shahrazaye, Orestis Papakyriakopoulos, Simon Hegelich: The Rise of the AfD: A Social Media Analysis Ivo Furman, Aslı Tunç: How much engagement creates echo chambers? A network approach to studying political polarisation on Twitter during the 2017 Turkish Constitutional Referendum Nahema Marchal, David Watson: Affective Polarisation, Internet and Social Media Use in the UK

C6: Building Dialogue II [Friday 11:00-12:30, SR8]

Nina Santos: Social media and democratic challenges: visibility inequalities in the 2013 Brazilian protests Ismail Cem Karadut: Truth-Telling in the Era of Post-Truth: Two Cases of Parrhesia for Democracy Anu Sirola, Markus Kaakinen, Iina Savolainen and Atte Oksanen: Identity bubbles and social influence in social media behaviour among young people

C7: The New Collective I [Friday 14:40-16:10, SR8]

Kurt Barling, Chamil Rathnayake: A Topic Model Analysis Approach to Understand Twitter Public Discourse: Grenfell Tower Fire Case Study Jose Mauricio Gaona: Technological Protection of Human Rights: Exploring the Specialized-Emerging Functions of Social Media in Latin America Olga Boichak, Anatoliy Gruzd: Mobilizing diasporas: mapping transnational relief efforts in the social media age

C8: The New Collective II [Friday 16:30-18:00, SR8]

Mariia Terentieva: Internet as Public Self-Service Media: Exploring Digital Civil Society in Post-Maidan Ukraine Claudia Ferreira, Nikki Soo: Challenging Existing Institutions and Changing Narratives: Public Perception during the #MeToo and #TimesUp Movement Aliaksandr Herasimenka: Responding to Democratic Decay: Large-Scale Political Campaigning on Social Media in Russia Paweł Matuszewski, Katarzyna Walecka: Hollowing democracy? From dialogue to cracked society in Poland

D3: The Digital Economy [Thurs 15:30-17:00, MOLT]

Arnav Joshi: Regulating an Infrastructuralised Airbnb: Organisational, Regulatory and Civil Society Challenges and Responses Balazs Bodo: Decentralized Technologies and Governance at Scale – De/Re/Constructing the Blockchain Narrative Aulia Nastiti: Labor Dispute and the Politics of Production in Ride Hailing Services