DISSERTATION
Dynamic reformulation of perceptions of inequity: Their organizational antecedents and outcomes.
Ph.D dissertation, 1988, University of Southern California (Peter Monge, Advisor).
PUBLICATIONS
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Books
Monge, P. R., & Contractor, N. (2003). Theories of Communication Networks. New York: Oxford University Press.
Chapter 1: Networks and Flows in Organizational Communication
Chapter 2: Network Concepts, Measures, and Analytic Techniques
Chapter 3: Communication and Knowledge Networks as Complex Systems
Chapter 4: Computational Modeling of Networks
Chapter 5: Theories of Self-interest and Collective Action
Chapter 6: Contagion, Semantic and Cognitive Theories
Chapter 7: Exchange & Dependency Theories
Chapter 8: Homophily, Proximity, and Social Support Theories
Chapter 9: Evolutionary and Coevolutionary Theories
Chapter 10: Multitheoretical, Multilevel Models of Communication and Other Organizational Models
Contractor, N. (2002). Section Editor for “New Media and Organizing” for In L.
Lievrouw & S. Livingstone (Eds.) Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs. London: Sage.
Journal Articles & Conference Proceedings
Contractor, N. (in press). Some assembly required: Leveraging web science to understand and enable team assembly. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: A
Huang, Y., Shen, C., & Contractor, N. S. (in press). Distance matters: Exploring proximity and homophily in virtual world networks. Decision Support Systems. doi:10.1016/j.dss.2013.01.006
Keegan, B., Gergle, D., & Contractor, N. S. (in press). Hot off the Wiki: Structures and Dynamics of Wikipedia’s Coverage of Breaking News. American Behavioral Scientist.
Wijngaert, L., Bouwman, H., & Contractor, N. (in press). A network approach toward literature review. Quality & Quantity.
Contractor, N. S., DeChurch, L. A., Carson, J. B., Carter, D., & Keegan, B. (in press). The topology of collective leadership. The Leadership Quarterly.
Huang, M., Barbour, J., Su, C., & Contractor, N. (in press). Why Do Group Members Provide Information to Digital Knowledge Repositories? A Multilevel
Application of Transactive Memory Theory, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Zhang, Z., Zhang, Z., Jain, R., Zhuang, Y., Contractor, N., Hauptmann, A. G., et al. (2012). Societally connected multimedia across cultures. Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE C, 13(12), 875-880. doi:10.1631/jzus.C1200279
Mathur, S., Poole, M.S., Peña-Mora, F., Hasegawa-Johnson, M., & Contractor, N. (2012). Detecting interaction links in a collaborating group using
manually annotated data. Social Networks. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2012.04.002
Murase, T., Doty, D., Wax, A., DeChurch, L.A., & Contractor, N. (2012). Teams are changing: Time to “think networks”. Submitted to Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice 5(1), 41-44.
Keegan, B., Gergle, D., & Contractor, N. (2012). Staying in the Loop: Structure and Dynamics of Wikipedia’s Breaking News Collaborations. Proceedings
of the 8th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration: WikiSym 2012, Linz, Austria.
Keegan, B., Gergle, D., & Contractor, N. (2012). Do editors or articles drive collaboration? Multilevel statistical network analysis of wikipedia
coauthorship. In S. Poltrack & C. Simone (Eds.), Proceedings of the CSCW ’12 Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Seattle, WA (pp. 427-436).
New York, USA: ACM. doi:10.1145/2145204.2145271
McGuinness, D. L., Lebo, T., Ding, L., McCusker, J. P., Shaikh, A. R., Moser, R. P., et al. (2012). Towards Semantically Enabled Next Generation Community
Health Information Portals: The PopSciGrid Pilot. In Proceedings of the 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Maui, Hawaii, 4-7 January, 2012 (pp. 2752-2760). IEEE.
doi:10.1109/HICSS.2012.605
Schatz, B., Marsh, C., Gustafson, D., Patrick, K., Krishnan, J., Kumar, S., & Contractor, N. (2012). Research challenges in measuring data for
population health to enable predictive modeling for improving healthcare. ACM SIGHIT Record, 2(2), 36-41.
Ahmad, M., Borbora, Z., Srivastava, J., & Contractor, N. (2012). Love all, trust a few: Link prediction for trust and psycho-social factors in MMOs. In
S. J. Yang, A. M. Greenberg, & M. Endsley (Eds.),
Social Computing, Behavioral – Cultural Modeling and Prediction. 5th International Conference, SBP 2012, College Park, MD, USA, April 3-5, 2012.
Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
(Vol. 7227, pp. 123-130). Berlin: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-29047-3
Fazel-Zarandi, M., Devlin, H.J., Huang, Y., & Contractor, N. (2011). Expert recommendation based on social drivers, social network analysis, and
semantic data representation. Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Information Heterogeneity and Fusion in Recommender Systems, 41-48.
Keegan, B., Gergle, D., & Contractor, N. (2011). Hot off the wiki: dynamics, practices and structures in Wikipedia’s coverage of the Tōhoku
catastrophes. Proceedings of WikiSym11, 105-113.
Ahmad, M., Keegan, B., Sullivan, S., Williams, D., Srivastava, J. & Contractor, N. (2011). Illicit Bits: Detecting and Analyzing Contraband Networks in
Massively Multiplayer Online Games. Proceedings of IEEE Internation Conference on Social Computing 2011.
Ahmad, M.A., Keegan, B., Williams, D., Srivastava, J., & Contractor, N. (2011). Trust among rogues? A hypergraph approach for comparing clandestine
trust networks in MMOGs. Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 10-17.
Williams, D., Contractor, N., Poole, M. S., Srivastava, J., & Cai, D. (2011). The Virtual Worlds Exploratorium: Using Large-Scale Data and
Computational Techniques for Communication Research. Communication Methods and Measures, 5(2), 163-180.
Ahmad, M.A., Keegan, B., Sullivan, S., Williams, D., Srivastava, J., & Contractor, N. (2011). Towards analyzing adversarial behavior in clandestine
networks. Applied Adversarial Reasoning and Risk Modeling, Papers from the 2011 AAAI Workshop, 75-76.
Su, C., Huang, M., & Contractor, N. (2010). Understanding the structures, anticedents and outcomes of organizational learning and knowledge transfer: A
multi-theoretical and multilevel network analysis. European Journal of International Management, 4(6), 576-601.
Mahmassani, H.S., Chen, R.B., Huang, Y., Williams, D., & Contractor, N. (2010). Time to play? Activity engagement in multiplayer online role-playing
games. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 129-137.
Wang, J., Huffaker, D. A., Treem, J. W., Fullerton, L., Ahmad, M. A., Williams, D., Poole, M. S., & Contractor, N. (2011).
Focused on the prize: Characteristics of experts in massive multiplayer online games
. First Monday, 16(8).
Castells, M., Monge, P., & Contractor, N. (2011) Network Theory| Prologue to the Special Section: Network Multidimensionality in the Digital Age. International Journal of Communication [Online] 5:0. Available:http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1103/554
Contractor, N., Monge, P., & Leonardi, P. (2011).
Multidimensional Networks and the Dynamics of Sociomateriality: Bringing Technology Inside the Network
. International Journal of Communication, 5, 682-720.
Whitbred, R., Fonti, F., Steglich, C., & Contractor, N. (2011). From Microactions to Macrostructure and Back: A Structurational Approach to the
Evolution of Organizational Networks. Human Communication Research, 37(3), 404-433.
Su, C., & Contractor, N. (2011). A multidimensional network approach to studying team members’ information seeking from human and digital knowledge
sources in consulting firms. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 62(7), 1257-1275.
Falk-Krzesinski, H.J., Contractor, N., Fiore, S.M., Hall, K.L., Kane, C., Keyton, J., Klein, J., Spring, B., Stokols, D., & Trochim, W. (2011). Mapping
a research agenda for the science of team science. Research Evaluation, 20(2), 143-156.
Keegan, B., Ahmed, M.A., Williams, D., Srivastava, J., & Contractor, N. (2010). Dark gold: Statistical properties of clandestine networks in massively
multiplayer online games. Proceedings of 2010 IEEE Second International Conference on Social Computing, 201-208.
Contractor, N. (2010). Understanding and Enabling Online Social Networks to Support Healthy Behaviors. Proceedings of Advances in Social Computing, 6007, 169-169.
Ahmad, M.A., Borbora, Z., Srivastava, J., & Contractor, N. (2010). Link prediction across multiple social networks. Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops, 911-918.
Falk-Krzesinski, H.J., Börner, K., Contractor, N., Fiore, S.M., Hall, K.L., Keyton, J., Spring, B., Stokols, D., Trochim, W., & Uzzi, B. (2010).
Advancing the Science of Team Science. Clinical and Translational Sciences, 3(5), 263-266.
Börner, K., Contractor, N., Falk-Krzesinski, H.J., Fiore, S.M., Hall, K.L., Keyton, J., Spring, B., Stokols, D., Trochim, W., & Uzzi, B. (2010). A
Multi-Level Systems Perspective for the Science of Team Science. Science Translational Medicine, 2(49).
Tian, Y., Srivastava, J., Huang, T., & Contractor, N. (2010). Social Multimedia Computing. Computer, 43(8), 27-36.
Su, C., Huang, M., & Contractor, N. (2010). Understanding the structures, antecedents and outcomes of organisational learning and knowledge transfer: a
multi-theoretical and multilevel network analysis. European Journal of International Management, 4(6), 576-601.
Yuan, C. Fulk, J., Monge, P., & Contractor, N. (2010). Expertise Directory development, shared task interdependence, and strength of communication
network ties as multilevel predictors of expertise exchange in transactive memory work groups. Communication Research, 37, 20-47.
Courtney, P., Shaikh, A. R., Contractor, N., McGuinness, D. L., Ding, L., Augustson, E. M., Blake, K., Morgan, G. D., Moser, R., Willis, G., & Hesse,
B. W. (2010). Consumer Health Portal: An Informatics Tool for Translation and Visualization of Complex, Evidence-Based Population Health Data for Cancer
Prevention and Control, In 138th APHA Annual Meeting.
Falk-Krzesinski, H.J., Contractor, N., Fiore, S.M., Hall, K.L., Kane, C., Keyton, J., Klein, J., Spring, B., Stokols, D., & Trochim, W. (2011). Mapping
a research agenda for the science of team science. Research Evaluation, 20(2), 143-156.
Falk-Krzesinski, H. J., Börner, K., Contractor, N., Fiore, S. M., Hall, K. L., Keyton, J., Spring, B., Stokols, D., Trochim, W., & Uzzi, B.
(2010). Advancing the Science of Team Science. Clinical and Translational Sciences, 3, 263-266.
Börner, K., Contractor, N., Falk-Krzesinski, H. J., Fiore, S. M., Hall, K. L., Keyton, J., Spring, B., Stokols, D., Trochim, W., & Uzzi, B.
(2010). A Multi-Level Systems Perspective for the Science of Team Science. Science Translational Medicine, 2(49), 49cm24.
Tian, Y., Srivastava, J., Huang, T., & Contractor, N. (2010). Social Multimedia Computing. Computer, 43(8), 27-36.
Yuan, C. Fulk, J., Monge, P., & Contractor, N. (2010). Expertise Directory development, shared task interdependence, and strength of communication
network ties as multilevel predictors of expertise exchange in transactive memory work groups. Communication Research 37, 20-47.
Lazer, D., Pentland, A., Adamic, A., Aral, S., Barabasi, A.L., Brewer, D., Christakis, N. Contractor, N., Fowler, J., Gutmann, M., Hebara, T., King, G.,
Macy, M., Roy, D., and Van Alstyne, M. (2009). Life in the network: The coming age of computational social science. Science, 323 (5915), (pp. 721-723).
Shaikh, A. R., Contractor, N., Moser, R., Morgan, G. D., Courtney, P. K., E. M. Augustson, A. M. Pilsner, & Hesse, B. W. (2009). PopSciGrid: Using
cyberinfrastructure to enable data harmonization, collaboration, and advanced computation of nationally representative behavioral, demographic, and
economic data. In 137th APHA Annual Meeting.
Huang, Y., Zhu, M. Wang, J. Pathak, N., Shen, C., Keegan, B., Williams, D., & Contractor, N. (2009). The formation of task-oriented groups: exploring
combat activities in online games. Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, IEEE Computer
Society, 4, 122-127.
Contractor, N. (2009). The emergence of multidimensional networks. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 14(3), 743-747.
Contractor, N. (2009). Understanding & enabling networks in digital government. Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Digital
Government Research: Social Networks: Making Connections between Citizens, Data and Government. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series,
390, 364-365.
Ahmad, M.A., Keegan, B., Srivastava, J., Williams, D., & Contractor, N. (August 29-31, 2009). Mining for gold farmers: Automatic detection of deviant
players in MMOGs. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 2009, 4, 340-345.
Huffaker, D., Wang, J., Treem, J., Ahmad, M. A., Fullerton, L., Williams, D., Poole, M. S., & Contractor, N. (2009). The social behaviors of experts in
massive multiplayer online role-playing games. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 2009, 4,
326-331.
Lazer, D., Pentland, A., Adamic, L., Aral, S., Barabasi, A. L., Brewer, D., Christakis, N., Contractor, N., Fowler, J., Gutman, M., Jebara, T., King, G.,
Macy, M., Roy, D., Van Alstyne, M. (2009). Computational Social Science, Science 323 (5915), 721-723.
Varda, D., Forgette, R., Banks, D., & Contractor, N. (2009). Social network methodology in the study of disasters: issues and insights prompted by
post-Katrina research. Population Research & Policy Review, 28(1), 11-29.
Neumeyer, X., Contractor, N., & Ehmann, K. (2008). Collaboration Networks in Micromanufacturing, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Micromanufacturing, Pittsburgh, PA.
Huang, Y., Contractor, N., & Yao, Y. (2008). Recommendation based on Social Networks, Proceedings of DG.O 2009 annual conference for Digital Government, Montreal, Canada.
Contractor, N., Wasserman, S., & Faust, K. (2006).
Testing multitheoretical, multilevel hypotheses about organizational networks: An analytic framework and empirical example.
Academy of Management Review
, 31
, 681-703.
Palazzolo, E. T., Serb, D., She, Y., Su, C., & Contractor, N. S. (2006).
Coevolution of communication and knowledge networks in Transactive Memory systems: Using computational models for theoretical development.
Communication Theory, 16
, 223-250.
Patel, J., Gupta, I., & Contractor, N. (2006). JetStream: Achieving predictable gossip dissemination by leveraging social networks principles. Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (IEEE NCA06).
Pathak, N., Mane, S., Srivastava, J., & Contractor, N. S. (2006).Knowledge Perception Analysis in a Social Network. Proceedings of the 6th SIAM – International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 06).
Katz, N., Lazer, D., Arrow, H., & Contractor, N. (2004). Network theory and small groups. Small Group Research, 35, 307-332.
Contractor, N. S., Whitbred, R., Fonti, F., Hyatt, A., Jones, P., & O’Keefe, B. (under revision 2003). Self-organizing communication networks in
organizations. Validation of a computational model using exogenous and endogenous theoretical mechanisms, Organization Science.
Contractor, N., Brandon, D., Huang, M., Palazzolo, E. T., Steinley, D., Su, C., Suri, R., Swarbrick, A., Templin, J., & Wasserman, S. Multi-Theoretical
Multilevel Models of Information Retrieval in Knowledge Networks. Manuscript submitted to Academy of Management Journal.
Contractor, N., Brandon, D., Huang, M., Palazzolo, E. T., Steinley, D., Su, C., Suri, R., Swarbrick, A., Templin, J., & Wasserman, S. (resubmitted
2003). Multi-Theoretical Multilevel Models of Information Retrieval in Knowledge Networks. Academy of Management Journal.
Contractor, N. S., & Monge, P. R. (2002). Managing knowledge networks. Management Communication Quarterly, 16, 249-258.
Contractor, N. S., Stohl, C., Monge, P. R., Flanagin, A., & Fulk, J. (under review 2002). Communication in the global workplace: Advanced E-Quad
collaboration tools to support multi-university cooperative learning and teaching. eLearn Magazine, www.eLearnmag.org
Fesenmaier, J., & Contractor, N. (2001). Inquiring Knowledge Networks on the Web (IKNOW):
The Evolution of Knowledge Networks for Rural Development.
The Journal of the Community Development Society, 32,
160-175.
Pollock, T., Whitbred, R. A., & Contractor, N. (2000).
Social information processing and job characteristics: A simultaneous test of two theories with implications for job satisfaction.
Human Communication Research, 26
(2), 292-330.
Contractor, N. S. (1999).
Self-organizing systems research in the social sciences: Reconciling the metaphors and the models.
Management Communication Quarterly, 13
(1), 154-166.
Heald, M., Contractor, N., Koehly, L. M., & Wasserman, S. (1998).
Formal and emergent predictors of coworkers’ perceptual congruence on an organization’s social structure.
Human Communication Research, 24,
536-563.
Ehrlich, M.C., & Contractor, N. S. (1998).“Shock” meets “community service”: J.C. Corcoran at KMOX. Journal of Radio Studies 5(1), 22-35.
Grant, N., & Contractor, N. S. (under review 1997). Dynamic modeling of the social influence process. Communication Theory.
Hyatt, A., Contractor, N., & Jones, P. M. (1997).Computational organizational network modeling: Strategies and an example. Computational and Mathematical Organizational Theory, 4, 285-300.
Jacobs, J. L., Dorneich, M. C., Jones, P. M., O’Keefe, B. J. and Contractor, N. (1997).SPOT: Using collaborative technologies for developing collaborative technologies. Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1, 690-695, Orlando, FL.
Jones, P. M., Chin, G., Lucenti, M., Kim, H-J., Stigberg, D., Sherman, G., Contractor, N., O’Keefe, B. J., Whitbred, R., Grobler, F., Case, M., Heckel, J.,
Lu, S. C-Y. & Ganeshan, R. (1997).
CITYSCAPE: Civil infostructure technology system for collaborative analysis, prediction, and evaluation.
Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
, 3, 2223-2227, Orlando, FL.
Contractor, N. S., Seibold, D. R., & Heller, M. A. (1996).
Interactional influence in the structuring of media use in groups: Influence of members’ perceptions of group decision support system use.
Human Communication Research, 22
, 451-481.
Jones, P. M., Contractor, N., O’Keefe, B., Lu, S., Case, M., Lawrence, P., & Grobler, F. (1995).Workflow and cooperative problem solving in civil infrastructure management. Proceedings of the IEEE 1995 International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 5, 4575-4580, Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada.
Jones, P. M., Contractor, N., Lu, S. C-Y., & O’Keefe, B. J. (1994). Intelligent collaborative support for engineering design. Proceedings of the 12th Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA ’94), 4, 80 – 82, Toronto, Ontario, August
1994.
Jones, P. M., Contractor, N., O’Keefe, B., & Lu, S. C-Y. (1994).
Competence models and self-organizing systems: Towards intelligent, evolvable, collaborative support.
Proceedings of the IEEE 1994 International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
, 1, 367-372, San Antonio, TX, October 1994.
Contractor, N. S., & Seibold, D. R. (1993).
Theoretical frameworks for the study of structuring processes in group decision support systems: Adaptive structuration theory and self-organizing
systems theory.
Human Communication Research
, 19, 528-563.
Contractor, N., & Ehrlich, M. (1993).
Strategic ambiguity in the birth of a loosely coupled organization: The case of a $50-million experiment.
Management Communication Quarterly, 6
(3), 251-281.
Michaelson, A., & Contractor, N. (1992).Structural Position and Perceived Similarity. Social Psychology Quarterly, 55, 300-310.
Monge, P. R., Cozzens, M. D., & Contractor, N. S. (1992).Communication and motivational predictors of the dynamics of organizational innovation. Organization Science, 3, 250-274.
Case, M., Contractor, N., Jones, P. M., Lu, S. C-Y., & O’Keefe, B. J. (1992).Team engineering analysis and modeling: Toward a normative model of team interaction. Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Chicago IL, October 1992.
Waterman, D., Schechter, R., & Contractor, N. (1991).Overcoming barriers to the live arts: Can the media compensate?. Journal of Cultural Economics, 15, 19-40.
Rice, R., & Contractor, N. S. (1990).
Conceptualizing effects of office information systems: A methodology and application for the study of alpha, beta and gamma change.
Decision Science, 21
, 301-317.
Contractor, N. S., Singhal, A., & Rogers, E. M. (1988). Metatheoretical perspectives on satellite
television and development in India.
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 32
(2),
129-148.
Cozzens, M. D., & Contractor, N. S. (1987).The effect of conflicting information on media skepticism. Communication Research, 14, 437-451.
Contractor, N. S., Fulk, J., Monge, P. R., &Singhal, A. (1986).Cultural assumptions that influence the implementation of communication technologies. Vikalpa, 11, 287-300.
Book Chapters
Margolin, D., Ognyanoya, K., Huang, M., Huang, Y., & Contractor, N. (2012). Team formation and performance on Nanohub: A network selection challenge in
scientific communities. In B. Vedres & M. Scotti (Eds.), Networks in Social Policy Problems (pp. 80-100). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press.
Contractor, N., & Su, C. (2011). Understanding groups from a network perspective. In A. Hollingshead & M. S. Poole (Eds.), Research methods for studying groups and teams: A Guide to approaches, tools, and technologies (pp. 284-310). New York: Taylor &
Francis/Routledge.
Poole, M. S., & Contractor, N. S. (2011). Conceptualizing the multiteam system as an ecosystem of networked groups. In Zaccaro, S.J., Marks, M.A.,
& DeChurch, L.A. (Eds.) Multiteam systems: An organizational form for dynamic and complex environments (pp. 193-224). New York: Routledge Academic.
Pathak, N., Mane, S., Srivastava, J., Contractor, N., Poole, S., & Williams, D. (2008). Analysis of social networks and group dynamics from electronic
communication. In Kargupta, H., Han, J., Yu, P.S., Motwani, R., & Kumar, V. (Eds.) Next Generation of data mining (377-397). Chapman and Hall.
Provan, K., & Contractor, N. (2007). Understanding and managing stakeholder networks. In National Cancer Institute, Greater than the Sum: Systems
Thinking in Tobacco Control. Tobacco Control Monograph No. 18. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health,
National Cancer Institute. NIH Pub. No. 06-6085.
Contractor, N. S. (2007).Computers-User Interaction. Entry in Donsbach (Ed.) The International Encyclopedia of Communication. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
Hollingshead, A., & Contractor, N. (2006). New media and small group organizing. In L.A. Lievrouw & S. Livingstone
(Eds.), The Handbook of New Media (Student Edition) (pp. 114-133). London: Sage.
Katz, N., Lazer, D., Arrow, H., & Contractor, N. (2005). The network perspective on small groups: Theory and research. In Poole, M.
S. & Hollingshead, A.B. (Eds.) Theories of Small Groups: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp. 277-312). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Bajcsy, R., Rubin P., Bertenthal, B., Bimber, B., Contractor, N., Finholt, T., Franklin, K., Liberman, M., Mebane, W., Pearce, C., Scacchi, W., Teitelbaum,
B., & Urban M. (2004). Cyberinfrastructure-mediated interaction. Report of the NSF Workshop on Cyberinfrastructure for the Social Sciences.
Contractor, N. S., & Monge, P. R. (2003). Using multi-theoretical multilevel models to study adversarial networks. In
R. Breiger, K. Carley, & P. Pattison (Eds.), Dynamic Social Network Modeling and Analysis: Workshop Summary and Papers (pp. 324-344).
Washington, D.C.: National Research Council.
Contractor, N. (2003). Peer-to-Peer. In S. Jones (Ed.), Encyclopedia of New Media.
(pp. 367-369). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Hollingshead, A. B., & Contractor, N. S. (2002). New media and organizing at the group level. In S. Livingstone
& L. Lievrouw (Eds.), Handbook of New Media (pp. 221-235). London: Sage.
Contractor, N. (2002). New media and organizing: Introduction. In S. Livingstone & L. Lievrouw (Eds.), Handbook of New Media (pp. 201-205).
London: Sage.
Contractor, N., & Baldwin, C. (2001).
Adoption of communication technologies and the evolution of communication networks in organizations.
In V. Burton, D. Herr, & T. Finnegan (Eds.), Wayfarer: Charting Advances in Social Science Computing (CD). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois
Press.
Monge, P. R., & Contractor, N. S. (2001). Emergence of communication networks.
In F.M. Jablin & L.L. Putnam (Eds.), New handbook of organizational communication (pp. 440-502). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Shapiro, M. A., Lang, A., Hamilton, M., & Contractor, N. S. (2001). Information Systems Division: Intra-Personal, Meaning, Attitude and Social Systems. In
W. Gudykunst (Ed.), Communication Yearbook, 24 (pp. 17-49). Newbury Park: Sage.
Contractor, N., & Bishop, A. P. (2000).Reconfiguring community networks: The case of PrairieKNOW. In T. Ishida (Ed.), Digital Cities: Technologies, Experiences, and future Perspectives (pp. 151-164). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Contractor, N., Bishop, A. P., & Zink, D. (1999).
PrairieKNOW: A tool to assist the study, creation, and growth of community networks.
In H-J.Bullinger& J. Ziegler (Eds.), Proceedings of HCI International ’99 (the 8th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction), Munich, Germany, Volume 2, (pp.
447-451). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Contractor N., Zink, D., & Chan, M. (1998).
IKNOW: A tool to assist and study the creation, maintenance, and dissolution of knowledge networks.
In Toru Ishida (Ed.), Community Computing and Support Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1519 (pp. 201-217). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Monge, P. R., & Contractor, N. S. (1998). Emergent communication networks. In L. Putnam & F. Jablin (Eds.) Handbook of organizational communication (second edition). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Contractor, N. S., & Whitbred, R. (1997).
Decision development in work groups: A comparison of contingency and self-organizing systems perspectives.
In G. Barnett & L. Thayer (Eds.), Organizational Communication: Emerging perspectives (pp. 83-104). New York: Ablex.
Contractor, N., & O’Keefe, B. J. (1997). The politics of information systems: Rational designs and organizational realities.
In B. Davenport Sypher (Ed.) Case Studies in Organizational Communication: Perspectives on Contemporary Work Life (pp. 203-218). New York: The
Guilford Press.
Monge, P. R., & Contractor, N. (1996). Communication networks. In A.
Kuper & J. Kuper (Eds.) The Social Science Encyclopedia – Edition 2. London: Routledge.
Monge, P. R., & Contractor, N. (1996). Communication Research (revision of original by Gerald Miller). In A. Kuper& J. Kuper (Eds.) The Social Science Encyclopedia – Edition 2. London: Routledge.
Contractor, N., & O’Keefe, B. J. (in press 1996). Political consideration in designing organizational information systems. In B. Sypher (Ed.) Case Studies in Organizational Communication. New York: Guildford Publications.
Contractor, N. S., & Grant, S. (1996).
The emergence of shared interpretations in organizations: A self-organizing systems perspective.
In J. Watt & A. VanLear (Eds.), Cycles and dynamic processes in communication processes (pp. 216-230). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Jones, P., Contractor, N., O’Keefe, B., Lu, S., Case, M., & Lawrence, P. (1995). Workflow and cooperative problem solving in civil infrastructure
management. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (pp. 4575-4580). Vancouver, BC.
Contractor, N. (1994).
Self-organizing systems perspective in the study of organizational communication.
In B Kovacic (Ed.) New Approaches to Organizational Communication (pp. 39-66). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Seibold, D., Heller, M. A., & Contractor, N. (1994). Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS): Review, taxonomy, and research agenda.
In B Kovacic (Ed.) Organizational Communication: New perspectives (pp. 143-168). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Seibold, D., & Contractor, N. (1993).Commentary on “Issues for a theory of high-speed management” by D. Cushman & E. King. In Communication Yearbook, 16 (pp. 237-246). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Contractor, N. S., Singhal, A., & Rogers, E. M. (1992). Metatheoretical perspectives on satellite television and development in India. In K. S. Nair
& S. A. White (Eds.), Perspectives on development communication. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Case, M., Contractor, N., Jones, P. M., Lu, S. C-Y, & O’Keefe, B. (1992). Consensus management in engineering design. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics.
Contractor, N. S., & Eisenberg, E. M. (1990). Communication networks and new media in organizations. In J. Fulk & C. W.
Steinfield (Eds.) Organizations and communication technology (pp. 143-172), Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Monge, P. R., & Contractor, N. S. (1988).Communication networks: Measurement techniques. In C. H. Tardy (Ed.), A handbook for the study of human communication: Methods and instruments for observing, measuring, and assessing communication processes (pp.
107-138), Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Magazine Articles
Keegan, B., Ahmad, M. A., Williams, D., Srivastava, J., & Contractor, N. (2011). What can gold farmers teach us about criminal networks? XRDS:
Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students, 17(3), (pp. 11-15).
Contractor, N. (1999). Tecnologia e “collettiaperti” Il Sole 24 Ore (Italian Financial
Daily).
Book Reviews
Contractor, N. (2001). Review of Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks Between Order and
Randomness
by Duncan J. Watts, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Chance, 14(4), (pp. 33-36).
Contractor, N. (1994). Review of Complexity – The emerging science at the edge of order and chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop, Simon & Schuster
Paperbacks, 1992. Journal of Communication, 44(3), (pp. 135-136).
Contractor, N. (1994). Review of Complexity – Life at the edge of chaos by Roger Lewin, The University of Chicago Press, 1992. Journal of Communication, 44(3), (pp. 135-136).
Contractor, N. (1994). Review of The origins of order by Stuart A. Kauffman, Oxford University Press, 1993. Journal of Communication, 44
(3), (pp. 135-136).
Contractor, N. (1992). Review of Research and Reflexivity edited by F.
Steier. Journal of Communication, 42(3), (pp. 196-199).
Contractor, N. S. (1992). Review of A Self-Renewing Society: The Role of Television and Communications Technology by N. D. Batra. Journalism Quarterly, 69, (pp. 227-228).
