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Post coffee, Anirban Mitra (Kent) is presenting "From Ballots to Belonging: Minority Representation and Public Spending for Social Cohesion in English Local Governments". They show that minority representation increases public spending towards education, culture & transportation.

Giacomo De Luca (Edinburgh) is presenting "Serving Countries, Shaping Views: the Impact of Military Conscription on Attitude towards Immigrants". Using the roll back of military service post 1990s they show that compulsory military service worsens attitudes towards immigration.

Maria Petrova is presenting a keynote "Socializing Alone: How Online Homophily Has Undermined Social Cohesion in the US", this uses Facebook's end of data federation causing a shock in the cost of importing ones social graph into a different platform. This creates variation in...

homophily that they explore. This breakdown led to the emergence of walled gardens. Back in 2009 I was writing about federated blogosphere in context of new OpenID standard allowing data federation. Since 2022 federation is "back" with users reclaiming digital self sovereignty.