The 2024 Computation + Journalism Symposium
October 25-27, 2024
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Hosted by Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts
Keynote Speakers
Julia Angwin
Julia Angwin is an American investigative journalist, author, and entrepreneur. She co-founded and was editor-in-chief of The Markup, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the impact of technology on society.
Aaron Sankin
Aaron Sankin is an editor on the Marshall Project’s data team. Prior to joining the Marshall Project, he was an investigative reporter at The Markup reporting on algorithmic discrimination, and at the Center for Investigative Reporting, covering online extremism.
Alan Mislove
Alan Mislove is a professor and the senior associate dean for academic affairs at Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. He recently served as Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer for Privacy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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RSVP for our opening reception
Join us at ISEC on Friday, October 25th for drinks and hors d’œuvres. Catch up with colleagues and welcome new researchers. We’ll ask you to RSVP after you register, closer to the conference date. Hope to see you there!
Panels
Full agenda forthcoming
LLMs, Search, and Bias
Sat, Oct 26 | 10:15-11:15 | Room 136
- Nick Beauchamp
Measuring Media Bias in the Selective Reporting of Events: The Promises and Challenges of Large Language Models
- Zhen Guo, Allison Wan, Kai-Cheng Yang and David Lazer
Google Searches Regarding Politicians are Dominated by a Few Nonpartisan News Sources
- Charlotte Li and Nicholas Diakopoulos
Probing GPT-4 for Knowledge of Journalistic Tasks
- Harry Yaojun Yan, Garrett Morrow, Kai-Cheng Yang and John Wihbey
Public Concerns Over AI-Supercharging Misinformation in the 2024 US Presidential Election
Audience and Representation
Sat, Oct 26 | 10:15-11:15 | Room 138
- Alyssa Smith, Sagar Kumar, Yukun Yang and Pranav Goel
An Annotated Dataset of U.S. Transgender News For Determining Agenda-Setting & Information Flows
- Eliza Mitova
A Complex Interplay: Exploring the (Mis)Match Between Audiences’ and News Organizations’ Assessments of News Personalization
- Kristi Tanner, Anjanette Delgado and Stephen Harding
Missing in Detroit: Creating a Framework for Equitable Reporting and Minimizing Harm
- Mohamed Salama
Bias or Not? Exploring US Press Representations of Law Enforcement in Lynching Coverage, 1789–1963
AI in Newsrooms
Sat, Oct 26 | 10:15-11:15 | Room 140
- Bahareh Heravi
Applying AI in Newsrooms: Lessons from the Applied AI in Journalism Challenge
- Nadia Kohler and Titus Plattner
Scaling GenAI Experimentation and Implementation in the Newsroom
- Dhrumil Mehta, Aisvariya Chandrasekar and Ken Muira
Pollfinder.ai | Using Large Language Models to Help Newsrooms Aggregate Polls For the 2024 Election
Language Analysis and Bias
Sat, Oct 26 | 11:30-12:30 | Room 136
- Jiaxin Pei
Modeling Information Change in Science Communication with Natural Language Processing
- Sachita Nishal, Eric Lee and Nicholas Diakopoulos
De-jargonizing Science for Journalists with GPT-4: A Pilot Study
- Rahul Bhargava, Elisabeth Hadjis and Meg Heckman
A Case Study in an A.I.-Assisted Content Audit
Newsroom Practice
Sat, Oct 26 | 11:30-12:30 | Room 138
- Hope Schroeder, Jad Kabbara and Deb Roy
AI-Mediated Analysis: Just put a Human in the Loop?
- Catherine Sotirakou
Strategies for Success: Dos and Don’ts in the Digital Transformation of Media Companies
- Md Main Uddin Rony, Saransh Grover, Farhana Uddin, Yoo Yeon Sung, Mohammad Ali and Naeemul Hassan
Perceptions and Corrections of Misleading News Headlines: Insights from Journalists and News Consumers
- Jessica Zier and Nicholas Diakopoulos
Labeling AI-Generated News Content: Matching Journalist Intentions with Audience Expectations
Local News
Sat, Oct 26 | 11:30-12:30 | Room 140
- Doug Beeferman and Nabeel Gillani
Search and Discovery of Local Government Meetings for Journalists
- Alexi Quintana, Kai-Cheng Yang, Pranav Geol, Burak Ozturan and David Lazer
Revealing the Localness of News Domains through Consumption Patterns on Social Media
- Marianne Aubin Le Quéré, Siyan Wang, Tazbia Fatima and Michael Krisch
Towards Identifying Local Content Deserts with Open-Source Large Language Models
- Arijit Paladhi
Predicting News Deserts Using Supervised Machine Learning
Investigative Techniques
Sat, Oct 26 | 4:30-5:30 | Room 136
- Alexander Spangher, Emilio Ferrara, Ben Welsh, Nanyun Peng, Serdar Tumgoren and Jonathan May
Surfacing Newsworthy Public Documents As Leads
- Joris Veerbeek and Nicholas Diakopoulos
Using Generative Agents to Create Tip Sheets for Investigative Data Reporting
Content and Ethics
Sat, Oct 26 | 4:30-5:30 | Room 138
- Leah Teichholtz, Katy Gero and Elena Glassman
Syntaktis: A Large-Language-Model-Backed Editing Interface for Supporting Ethical Journalism Practices
- Cole Biehle, Ritvik Irigireddy, Lu Sun and Steven P. Dow
Participatory Journalism: Stakeholder Perspectives on Enhancing Online Discussion through Data Talk
- Stephen Jefferson
Geographic Consistency: A New Framework for Measuring Fluctuations and Representation in Local Journalism
Partnering and Community
Sun, Oct 27 | 12:00-1:00 | Room 136
- Kai-Cheng Yang, Pranav Goel, Jeffrey Gleason and Alvaro Feal
Introduction to National Internet Observatory
- Brooke Williams
What We’ve Learned: Teaming Up Journalism and Computer Science Students to Produce Data-Driven Investigations for News Outlets
- Dhrumil Mehta and Aarushi Sahejpal
Data Journalism Teachers’ Club: A New Community For Data Journalism Educators
Data Journalism
Sun, Oct 27 | 12:00-1:00 | Room 138
- Louri Glen Kae Compain and Thomas Hurtut
CuratedDDS: A Taxonomy and a Dataset of Data-Driven Stories to Support Journalists’ Inspiration
- Divyanshi Wadhwa and Alice Thudt
What Does it Take to Create an Award-winning Data Public Good? Behind the Scenes of Producing the Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2023
- Lily Houtman
The Challenges and Opportunities of Designing News Maps for Mobile Devices
Workshops
Evaluating GenAI Tools in Your Newsroom
Charlotte Li, Sachita Nishal and Nicholas Diakopoulos
Sat, Oct 26 | 2:45-4:15 | Room 136
Social Network Analysis for Sports and Investigative Journalism
Hong Qu and Julian Benbow
Sat, Oct 26 | 2:45-4:15 | Room 138
Using LLMs To Help You Build Data Visualizations In D3
Dhrumil Mehta and Aarushi Sahejpal
Sat, Oct 26 | 2:45-4:15 | Room 140
Physical Data Visualization
Andres Snitcofsky and Rahul Bhargava
Sat, Oct 26 | 2:45-4:15 | Room 142
AI Innovation in the Newsroom: A Design Thinking Workshop to Support New Approaches to Responsible AI
Maximilian Eder
Sun, Oct 27 | 10:15-11:45 | Room 136
Overcoming Challenges in Implementing AI in the Newsroom
Nadia Kohler and Titus Plattner
Sun, Oct 27 | 10:15-11:45 | Room 138
Preparing for the Day After: Covering Elections through the Inauguration
Jason Radford
Sun, Oct 27 | 10:15-11:45 | Room 140
Finding and using undocumented APIs
Leon Yin and Piotr Sapiezynski
Sun, Oct 27 | 10:15-11:45 | Room 142
Conference Leadership
Rahul Bhargava, Piotr Sapieżyński, Chenyan Jia
Co-Chairs, Program Committee
John Wihbey
General Chair
Susan Conover
Finance Chair
Dan Zedek, Matt Carroll
Faculty Conference Directors
Amelia Keany, Libby Phillips
Staff Administrators
Emma Klekotka
Student Co-Director and Web Lead
Thank you to our event sponsors
Questions?
Contact John Wihbey, j.wihbey@northeastern.edu
Prior Conferences
ETH Zurich (2023)
Columbia University (2022)
Northeastern University & online w/ the Brown Institute (2021)
University of Miami (2019)
Northwestern University (2017)
Stanford University (2016)
Columbia University (2015)
Columbia University (2014)
Georgia Tech (2013)
Georgia Tech (2008)