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SONIC Advancing the Science of Networks in Communities — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:17:21 +0000

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SONIC Advancing the Science of Networks in Communities — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 20:50:46 +0000

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How Well Can You Multitask?

SONIC Advancing the Science of Networks in Communities — Mon, 11 May 2015 18:54:31 +0000

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. Moreover, there is a lingering effect to multitasking in which individuals can’t shut off their multitasking tendencies when not multitasking.

In reality, only a very small number of the population can efficiently multitask. These “supertaskers” represent less than 3% of the population according to a study done at the University of Utah.

Are you are multitasker? Take the following test to find out how you measure up against both low and high multitaskers.
Take the test here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/07/technology/20100607-task-switching-demo.html?_r=0

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SONIC Advancing the Science of Networks in Communities — Sat, 02 May 2015 10:29:52 +0000

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Female peers in small work groups enhance women’s motivation, verbal participation, and career aspirations in engineering

SONIC Advancing the Science of Networks in Communities — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 21:14:42 +0000

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 the “leaky pipeline” problem: the observation
that fewer women than men enter science, technology, engineering, and
mathematics fields and more women than men leave. Less attention has
focused on experimentally testing solutions to this problem. We report an
experiment investigating one solution: we created “microenvironments”
(small groups) in engineering with varying proportions of women to identify
which environment increases motivation and participation, and whether
outcomes depend on students’ academic stage. Female engineering students
were randomly assigned to one of three engineering groups of varying sex
composition: 75% women, 50% women, or 25% women. For first-years, group
composition had a large effect: women in female-majority and sex-parity
groups felt less anxious than women in female-minority groups. However,
among advanced students, sex composition had no effect on anxiety.
Importantly, group composition significantly affected verbal participation,
regardless of women’s academic seniority: women participated more in
female-majority groups than sex-parity or female-minority groups.
Additionally, when assigned to female-minority groups, women who harbored
implicit masculine stereotypes about engineering reported less confidence
and engineering career aspirations. However, in sex-parity and
female-majority groups, confidence and career aspirations remained high
regardless of implicit stereotypes. These data suggest that creating small
groups with high proportions of women in otherwise male-dominated fields is
one way to keep women engaged and aspiring toward engineering careers.
Although sex parity works sometimes, it is insufficient to boost women’s
verbal participation in group work, which often affects learning and
mastery.

Link: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/04/03/1422822112

New App Will Integrate 37 Social Networks and Music Sites Into One Simple Feed

SONIC Advancing the Science of Networks in Communities — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:36:03 +0000

“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 product-whose odd name we assume was created with an algorithmic name generator-just launched on Indiegogo.”

This new app could provide interesting research opportunities for looking at the networks of Social Network Sites. Think of each SNS as a node and the connections (direct or indirect links) as edges.

“Users will be able to browse updates from various accounts on one combined feed, post and message across all of their accounts at once and even use multiple accounts from the same service (like personal and professional Twitter handles). They’ll also be able to hide specific content, save posts or links as “read later,” create lists, save drafts and customize notifications.”

Building A Smarter Team: Tom Ashbrook Doesn’t Understand the Benefits of Teams

SONIC Advancing the Science of Networks in Communities — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 17:07:40 +0000

“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 team? It’s not just a bunch of smart people, says a big new study. It’s a crew that shares the floor, the talking time, it claims. It’s a team that has high social sensitivity. And it’s often, it says, a team with more women. We need a cultural revolution, they say, to optimize our teams. This hour On Point: Are you onboard? We’re talking teamwork.” -Tom Ashbrook

Guests:

Anita Woolley, professor of organizational behavior at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business.

Thomas Malone, professor management at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. Author of “The Future of Work.” (@twmalone)

Morris Shechtman, founder of Fifth Wave Leadership.

Listen to the entire podcast here: http://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/01/27/team-building-women-silicon-valley

How Network Science Is Changing Our Understanding of Law

SONIC Advancing the Science of Networks in Communities — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 19:35:02 +0000

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 that are based on these treaties, and case laws that have emerged from the application of these regulations. Analysis of each subsection showed that “all were small world networks in themselves” that generally demonstrate high levels of resilience. This model produced a novel perspective because it takes into account both the temporal dynamism and hierarchical nature of European law. In addition to mapping citations (references that do not modify the target document) Konaris also represented legal bias (edit references that modify either the text or the lifecycle of the target document) and accounted for their effects over time. This revealed “a steep increase in the density of links within the network over time”. Ultimately, Konaris suggests that the clusters and related connections illustrated by this work may “help legislators determine the effect of proposed changes and improve the effectiveness of legal information retrieval”.

Paper:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.05237

Get your custom Google and YouTube URLs today

SONIC Advancing the Science of Networks in Communities — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 03:06:37 +0000

Dear SonicNU

Good news: You’re now eligible for custom URLs that let you easily point
people to your YouTube channel and Google+ profile. Here’s what we’ve
reserved for you:

youtube.com/c/SonicNU
google.com/+SonicNU

You can use these URLs on your website, emails and wherever else you
promote your profile or channel.

YouTubers, here’s why you should claim your URL right way.
As YouTube’s community has grown, we’ve seen things get complicated out
there. We want to reduce issues like ‘land-grabbing’ of common words and
brands, and make custom URLs available to more people who will benefit from
them in a fair and equal way. You can learn more about custom URLs on
http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2657968.

Get the URL (or request a different one) at:
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