Chapter Room
MEDIA, NETWORKS, AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Dave Karpf, Rutgers Univ.
“Internet-Mediated Organizations and the Changing Public Sphere”

José Manuel Robles, Stefano de Marco, Mirko Antino, Univ. Complutense de Madrid
“Political participation, Internet, collective action and digital activism”

Camilo Cristancho-Mantilla, Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona
“Protest mobilization and disagreement in online issue networks”

Daniel Mutibwa, Univ. of Leeds
“Romantic, Missionary-like and Oppositional: Gauging the Significance of Third Sector Media As Sites of Grassroots Organising. A Comparative Study of Britain and Germany”

Chair: Vincent Doyle, IE Univ.
Discussant: Matthew Hindman, George Washington Univ., USA

Room 142A
MEDIA FRAMES AND PUBLIC OPINION
Richard Doherty, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
“Economic gain or ecological sustainability? Framing, environmental movements, and communication theory

Rita Figueiras & Barbora Petrova, Masaryk Univ.
“Mixed-gender campaigning communication: Comparing in Portugal and Slovakia”

Janet Takens, Anita van Hoof &  Jan Kleinnijenhuis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
“The effect of process oriented and personalized news on the strength of vote determinants “

Porismita Borah, Maryville Univ., USA
“Does it matter where you read the news story? Interplay of news frames and incivility in the political blogosphere -- influence of incivility and news frames on willingness to participate, attitude certainty, open-mindedness and information seeking” 

Chair: Javier Rivero-Díaz, IE Univ.
Discussant: Robert Entman, George Washington Univ., USA

Room 145 
UNDERSTANDING PUBLIC OPINION POLLS

Katarzyna Staszynska,  Kozminski Univ., Poland
“Perception of public opinion polls in a developing democracy”

Miguel Vicente-Marino,  Univ. of Vallodid-Segovia Campus, Spain
“Public and published opinion about climate change: who is the one to blame?”

Michael Traugott, Univ. of Michigan, USA
“Understanding the causes of problems of pre-election polls in cross-national comparison”

Robert Luskin, James Fishkin, & Kyu Hahn, University of Texas at Austin, USA
“Deliberation and Net Attitude Change” 

Chair: Almudena González del Valle, IE Univ.
Discussant: Wolfang Donsbanch, Dresden Univ. of Technology

Room 145
METHODOLOGICAL AND MEASUREMENT ISSUES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS

Wolfgang Donsbach, Dresden Univ. of Technology
“Have you heard about…? Measuring political knowledge and news sources on a day-to-day basis”

Dan Cassino, Peter J. Woolley, Farleigh Dickinson Univ.'s PublicMind Poll
“Bias in legislative generic ballot questions: building a better House election forecast”

Patricia Goerman, Leticia Fernández, Rosanna Quiroz, U.S. Census Bureau
“Translation of Survey Items on Country Specific Programs: The Case of Translating U.S. Educational Level Questions into Spanish”

 Pawel Sobkowicz
“Computer simulations of opinions in a three state networked society”

Chair: Laura Illia, IE Univ.
Discussant: Zhongdang Pan, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Room 142A
MEDIA, KNOWLEDGE AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION

Lilach Nir, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem
“Do Shared News Environments Reduce Barriers to Political Engagement?”

Lisa Mueller & Bruno Wuest, Univ. of Zurich
“Bringing the Media In: How the Press System Affects Electoral Participation in Established Democracies”

Marta Fraile, European Univ. Institute
“Testing the Knowledge Gap: A Comparison of Traditional Media and Internet in Finland and Spain”

Rosa Berganza Conde & Roberto de Miguel Pascual, Univ. Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
"Digital opportunities and cognitive political mobilitation among europeans"

Marina Popescu,  Univ. of Essex, UK
“Can Mass Media Inform Citizens? How Media Systems Influence Citizens’ Political Knowledge and Knowledge Inequalities”

Chair: Marina Popescu, Univ. of Essex
Discussant: Shanto Iyenhar, Stanford
 

Chapter Room
POLITICAL COMMUNICATIONS AND THE INTERNET AROUND THE GLOBE

Matthew Hindman, George Washington Univ., USA
“Online News and the Red Queen:  Power Laws, Traffic Churn, and Why Saving Journalism Is Harder Than We Think”

Jorge Luis Salcedo Maldonado, Univ. Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain
“Conflicts about the regulation of intellectual property in Internet: comparing  the issue networks in UK and Spain”

Jennifer Brundidge, Homero Gil de Zúñiga, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Kelly Garrett , Hernando Rojas
“Mobilization and Demobilization among Liberals and Conservatives: The Impact of Political Blogs o Voter Choice and Participation in the 2008 Election Cycle”

Marko M. Skoric, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore
“Media, New and Old, and Civic and Political Participation in Singapore”
Chair: Pedro Cifuentes, IE Univ.
Discussant: Joan Font Fábregas, CSIC, Spain

Refectory
POLARIZATION
Led by Shanto Iyengar, Stanford University

Chapter Room
AGENDA SETTING IN THE REAL WORLD
Led by Roland Schatz, Media Tenor

Room 142A
THE STATE OF NEW MEDIA RESEARCH: SUCCESSES, FAILURES, AND A RESEARCH AGENDA FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS
Led by Matthew Hindman, George Washington Univ.

Krzysztof Zagorski, Kozminski Univ., Poland
“Impact of economic news on evaluation of nation’s and family’ s conditions”

Mariano Torcal & Fabiola Mota, Universidad Pompeu Fabra
“Spanish Public Opinion on the Models of the State: The role of partisan elite in shaping public opinion”

María José Canel, Univ. Complutense de Madrid, Spain
“Who is responsible for this? Public perceptions of public policies and their implications for government communication”

Philemon Bantimaroudis, Univ. of Aegan, Greece & Stelios Zyglidopoulos,  Univ. of Cambridge, UK
“Cultural Agenda Setting”
Chair: Laura Illia, IE Univ.
Discussant: Danilo Yanich, Univ. of Delaware
 
Room 142A
POLITICAL DELIBERATION

Joseph Chan & Baohua Zhou, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong
“Expressive Behaviors across Discursive Spaces and Issue Types”

Ernesto Ganuza, Regina Lafuente, Fernando Garrido, Francisco Frances, IESA/CSIC, Spain
“How deliberation influences on individual attitudinal net”

Wenjie Yan & Zhongdang Pan Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
“Entrapment of One’s Blind Spot:  Perceptions of Bias in Others and Deliberative Prospect”

Magdalena Wojcieszak, IE Univ.
"Deliberation Reconsidered: What Happens When People with Extreme Views Encounter Disagreement?"
Chair: Magdalena Wojcieszak, IE Univ.
Discussant: Robert Luskin, Univ. of Texas at Austin

Michael Meffert, Leiden Univ
“Partisan Selectivity for Information and Media Sources”

Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud, Univ. of Texas at Austin, Jae Kook Lee & Ashley Muddiman, Univ. of Texas at Austin
“Perceptions of bias in the media”

Jan Kleinnijenhuis,  Janet Takens, Wouter van Atteveldt, Anita van Hoof,  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
“Partisan news exposure and news effects: A ten‐wave longitudinal study”

Albert Gunther & Nicholas Brigham Schmuhl , Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
“Information or Affirmation? Partisan Selective Exposure and the Hostile Media Effect”
Chair: Magdalena Wojcieszak, IE Univ.
Discussant: Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud, Univ. of Texas at Austin

Room 145
JOURNALISM: CONTEXT AND CONTENT

Regina Lawrence,  Louisiana State Univ.
“Debunking Sarah Palin: Mainstream News Coverage of “Death Panels”

Minha Kim, Sungkyunkwan Univ., South Korea
“Conversational News & Peace Journalism Approach to Media Portrayals of Conflicts”

Motti Neiger, Eyal  Zandberg, Oren Meyers, Netanya Academic College, Israel

“Serving the enemy? - Conceptualizing journalistic criticism and public opinion toward it during war and conflict”

Andreu Casero Ripollés & Pablo López Rabadán, Univ. Jaume I, Spain
"Journalists and political sources interactions within building process of public opinion: current research results and future trends"
Chair: Patricia Villarruel, IE Univ.
Discussant: Hillel Nossek, College of Management, Israel

Room 142A
POLITICAL PARTICIPATION INTERNATIONALLY

Andrew Rojecki, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA
“Tea Party Politics: Making Virtue of Necessity and Necessity of Virtue

Jacob Groshek &Jiska Engelbert, Erasmus Univ. Rotterdam,Netherlands
“A Cross-National Comparison of Populist Political Movements and Media Uses in the United States and the Netherlands”

Joan Font Fábregas, CSIC, Clemente Navarro, Univ. Pablo Olavide, Spain
“Closeness and the evaluation of participatory instruments in Spanish cities”

Weiyu Zhang, Tan Tarn How, Chung Siyoung, National Univ. of Singapore
“Political cynicism and  political communications in an authoritarian society”
Chair: Vincent Doyle, IE Univ.
Discussant: Michael Xenox, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison

Room 142A
POP POLITICS

Gianpietro Mazzoleni,  Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy & Guido Legnante, Univ. di Pavia, Italy
“The success of “pop politics events” in Italy: structural determinants and peculiar audiences”

Michael Xenos, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison & Patricia Moy, Univ. of Washington USA
“The Daily Showand the Nightly News: Agenda Overlap between Political Entertainment and Traditional News Outlets”

Katja Friedrich, Ludwig Maximilians Universitat-Munchen
“Spaces of the (un-)political: Political effects of entertainment media”

Kay Richardson, Katy Parry, John Corner, Univ. of Liverpool
“Comedy, Political Subjectivity and the Formation of ‘Public Opinion"
Chair: Marta García Aller, IE Univ.
Discussant: Gianpietro Mazzoleni, Universita degil Studi di Milano

Refectory
NEW WAYS OF LOOKING AT POLITICAL COMMUNICATION

Robert Entman, George Washington Univ., USA
“Polarization and Asymmetric Partisan Warfare”

Kevin G. Barnhurst,Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, USA
"The New “Media Affect” and Representation in Political Communication."

Lance Holbert, Ohio State Univ.
“The Shifting of Explanatory Principles in Political Communication Research:  A Call for Diversification”

Shanto Iyengar, Stanford Univ., USA
“Future Directions in Political Communication Research:  Experimentation with Online Panels”
Chair: Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez, IE Univ.

Chapter Room
CHALLENGES OF STUDYING PUBLIC OPINION IN CHALLENGING CONTEXTS

Monroe Price, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA - teleconferencing
“Managing research in complex subject areas”

Mahmood Enayat, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
"Public opinion research in Iran - Challenges and solutions"

Ibrahim Al Marashi, IE University
“The Challenges of Conducting Public Opinion Research in post-Ba'athist Iraq”

Julia Shimko, IE Business School, Spain
"Surveying corruption in ex-Soviet Republics: lies, flaws and statistics”
Chair: Ibrahim Al Marashi, IE University
Discussant: Anne-Katrin Arnold, World Bank, US

Chapter Room
PRESUMED INFLUENCE
Led by Albert Gunther & Hernando Rojas, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison