Two papers accepted by 2011WAPOR conference

Two papers accepted by 2011WAPOR conference

Lu, H., Peng, T. Q., & Zhu, J. J. H. (2011). The effect of the Internet on national identity: A cohort study in Hong Kong. The 64th Annual Conference of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September. Wang,C.J.(2011).The Emergence of Spiral of Silence: Agent-based Modeling of the Spiral of Silence. The 64th Annual Conference of the World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September. The World Association for Public Opinion Research (WAPOR) is an international professional association of researchers in the fields ofcommunication and survey research. It is a member organization of the International Social Science Council. Established in 1947, the association acquired its current name in 1948, at the Third International Conference on Public Opinion Research. In 1953, it became the sole nongovernment consultant organization to UNESCO in the field of polling. Its current president is Tom W. Smith (NORC) and the vice president is Alejandro Moreno (Reforma , in Mexico).Among the former presidents of WAPOR are Juan Linz, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, Robert Worcester and Seymour Martin Lipset. The 64th WAPOR 2011 conference will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 21-23. The conference theme of 2011 emphasizes how the Internet provides challenges and opportunities for public opinion scholars and how the internet is changing public opinion.