7th SAMS Conference
Program Overview (pdf 
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08:45 – 09:15: Welcome Coffee
Arrival, Registration, Welcome Coffee
09:15 – 09:30: Welcome Address
09:30 – 10:50: Truth, Misinformation, and Polarization in Digital Media
Chair: Klaus Miller
09:30: From Sharing to Believing: How Online Sharing Inflates Perceived Truth (Andrea Bublitz)
09:55: Selective Facts Can Be As Persuasive As Falsehoods (Amir Tohidi)
10:20: Engagement vs. Commitment: The Economic Trade-Offs of Polarizing News Content (Klaus Miller)
10:45: Wrap-Up
Location: Plenary
10:50 – 11:10: Group Photo
Coffee Break
11:10 – 12:30: Creator Practices: Brands, Audience Engagement, and Status
Chair: Andrea Giuffredi-Kähr
11:10: Creator Brands (Boas Bamberger)
11:35: Unfollowing Behavior of Creators on User-Generated Content Platforms (Yvan Norotte)
12:00: From Cuteness to Exploitation: Understanding Audience Responses to Influencer Sharenting (Andrea Giuffredi-Kähr)
12:25: Wrap-Up
Location: Plenary
12:30 – 13:30: Lunch
13:30 – 14:50: Data-Driven Practices: Reproducibility, Selection, and Experimentation
Chair: Rafael Greminger
13:30: Improving Computational Reproducibility in the Social Sciences (Hauke Roggenkamp)
13:55: Influencer Selection Based on Lifetime Value (Fei Wang)
14:20: A/B Testing in the Creator Economy: Evidence from YouTube Thumbnail Testing (Rafael Greminger)
14:45: Wrap-Up
Location: Plenary
14:50 – 15:10: Coffee Break
15:10 – 16:30: Strategies for Behavior Change: Targeting, Salience, and Information
Chair: Ursa Bernardic
15:10: Identifying Central Individuals Without Social Network Information (Luca Lazzaro)
15:35: Amplifying Local Food Purchases: Basket-Level Information as a Salience-Based Intervention (Khalid Hamdaoui)
16:00: Shaping Sustainable Food Choices: Preliminary Evidence from a Large-Scale Randomized Controlled Trial (Ursa Bernardic)
16:25: Wrap-Up
Location: Room A
15:10 – 16:30: Designed Experiences: Connection, Control, and Empathy
Chair: Ertuğrul Uysal
15:10: Self-Transcendent Consumption Experience: A Multi-Method Approach (Adeepan Chakraborty)
15:35: AI-Mediated Decision-Making in Online Shopping (Olivia André)
16:00: Assessing the Role of Empathetic AI Voice Assistants in Learning (Ertuğrul Uysal)
16:25: Wrap-Up
Location: Room B
16:30 – 17:00: Meet the Co-Authors & Award Nomination
17:00 – 17:30: Award Ceremony & Wrap-Up
Rigor and Relevance Award · Best Presentation Award