More information can be found on the main event website.
Scholars from across Harvard University will join social media experts from Facebook, Twitter, Socialflow and Yahoo Research, for a conference on social media, theory and practice, and its potential effects on voting behavior, electricity consumption, pro-social behavior and privacy.
The event, “Social Media and Behavioral Economics Conference,” sponsored by Harvard Law School’s new Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy, will be held at Harvard Law School on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013.
The event is free and open to the public and will also be webcast live on the Harvard Law School website.
Please RSVP via the Facebook event page and follow along on Twitter with #HarvardSMBEC.
Social Media and Behavioral Economics Conference
Date: Wednesday, February 6, 9 a.m. to
1 p.m.
Location: WCC 2019 (Milstein West AB),
Harvard Law School
Introductions(9 a.m.)
Cass Sunstein,Professor, Harvard Law School
Panel 1: Theory and Practice (9:15-10:20 a.m.)
Moderator:Yochai Benkler,Professor, Harvard Law School, and Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Eytan Bakshy,Data Scientist, Facebook
Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Sharad Goel, Research Scientist, Yahoo Research
Gilad Lotan, VP of Research and Development, Socialflow
Panel 2: Behavioral Economics, Social Media, and Apps (10:30-11:40 a.m.)
Moderator:David Laibson,Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Sarah
Feinberg, Director of Corporate
Communications, Facebook
Andy
Cameron, Associate Professor of
Surgery and Surgical Director of Liver Transplantation, Johns Hopkins University
Michael Sachse, Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and
General Counsel, Opower
Panel 3: The Role of Institutions (11:50-1 p.m.)
Moderator:Cass Sunstein,Professor, Harvard Law School
Jonathan Zittrain,Professor, Harvard Law School, and Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Mike Luca,Assistant Professor, Harvard Business
School
Elliot Schrage, Vice President, Communications and Public
Policy, Facebook
Alex Macgillivray, General Counsel, Twitter