SONIC Presentations at INGRoup Conference

2015-07-21Posted inBlog, News, SONIC News

SONIC Members will present at the INGRoup Conference in Pittsburgh, PA on July 23rd-25th, 2015. The dates, times, and locations, as well as an abstract for each presentation, can be found below.

 

 

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Abstracts

 

Understanding the Assembly of Interdisciplinary Teams in an Emerging Scientific Field

Alina Lungeanu, Sophia Sullivan, Noshir Contractor

We examine the simultaneous effects of three sets of theoretical mechanisms – compositional, relational, and ecosystem– on team assembly in a nascent interdisciplinary scientific field.… Read the rest

TED Talk discusses Wikipedia and the culture of collaboration

2015-07-20Posted inBlog, Networks in the News

tedIn the TED Talk “Why We Collaborateâ€� Guy Raz talks to a series of people who have given TED Talks on the mysteries behind mass collaboration. Guest, Jimmy Wales, one of the creators of Wikipedia talks about how Wikipedia has become one of the most popular sites getting about 19 billions page views a month but could not have been what it is today without the help and collaboration of 80,000 volunteers all around the world.… Read the rest

The New Laws of Explosive Networks

2015-07-15Posted inBlog, Networks in the News

Although network connectivity has always been thought of in a slow and constant manner, researchers have discovered that in special cases, connectivity begins with a bang (and ends with one too) in a phenomenon called “explosive percolation.â€� It stems from networks being so interconnected that a chain reaction develops, and has serious consequences.… Read the rest

Brooke Foucault-Welles and Noshir Contractor Receive Article of the Year Award for “Dynamic Models of Communication in an Online Friendship Network”

2015-06-27Posted inBlog, SONIC News

BrookeEach summer, the editorial board of Communication Methods and Measures, the official journal for the Communication Theory and Methodology Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), nominates what they consider to be the three best articles published in the prior year.… Read the rest