Posts by SONIC Advancing the Science of Networks in Communities

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Multitaskers receive a lot of praise for being able to do many things at once, but a study conducted at Stanford University shows that multitaskers are significantly more prone to distractions, making it difficult for them to accomplish tasks in a timely manner.… Read the rest

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In a new piece in PNAS, Dasgupta,Scircle & Hunsinger demonstrate the importance of team gender composition. They show that females have greater participation, self-confidence, and career aspirations when they are assigned to teams with more females. Abstract: For years, public discourse in science education, technology, and policy-making has focused on […]

“A new web and mobile platform plans to simplify our online lives by providing users access to all of their accounts in one place. Squidlle will integrate dozens of social networks and sites for music, video, images, design and blogging and create one combined feed for all of them. The […]

“The world is going to teamwork. In the 1950s, about half of our work was done in teams. Today, by one measure, it’s more like 90 percent. Maybe it’s at the office. Maybe it’s on Google Hangout. Maybe it’s at the PTA. But what makes a good team? A smart [...]

Original Article: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534576/how-network-science-is-changing-our-understanding-of-law/ Summary: Konaris et al at the National Technical University of Athens in Greece expanded on existing legal network analysis by extracting “all the documents from the European Community’s legal database dating back to 1951” and organizing the texts into three subnetworks: treaties between countries, regulations and directives [...]

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