The 2016 Organizational Communication Mini-Conference (OCMC) is hosted by the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
http://ocmc2016.soc.northwestern.edu
SONIC graduate student Marlon Twyman will give a presentation about his current research.
The purpose of the OCMC is to feature and support graduate students pursuing research about organizational communication.… Read the rest
On September 9, 2016 Noshir Contractor presented at the Department of Computer Science and Automation Seminar Series at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, India. He spoke on the topic of Leveraging Computational Social Science to Address Grand Societal Challenges.… Read the rest
Do your friends actually like you? Recent research indicates that only about half of perceived friendships are mutual. Details here… Read the rest
Congratulations to a SONIC graduate student Marlon Twyman who received a Runner-up: “Best Student Paper” Award at the INGRoup 2016 conference for this presentation:
Marlon Twyman, Dan Newman, Leslie DeChurch, and Noshir Contractor. The Ties that Form Teams: Self-Organization, Homophily, and Multiplexity.… Read the rest
SONIC and NU-Delta members presented at the INGRoup conference on July 14-16 in Helsinki, Finland.
Abstracts for posters and presentations are listed below the schedule.
Gender Composition Affects Females Experience of Working in Science Teams
Ashley Niler, Raquel Asencio, Leslie DeChurch, Brian Uzzi, Noshir Contractor
Success in scientific fields hinges on effective collaboration.… Read the rest
Noshir Contractor gave a keynote address at the 2016 annual Web Science Summer School held in Koblenz, Germany. Click here for the event page and click here to download slides from the presentation.
Abstract:
The increased access to big data about social phenomena in general, and network data in particular, has been a windfall for social scientists.… Read the rest
Northwestern University hosted a one-day workshop for all faculty and students who participated in the 3-university graduate seminar that was co-taught with University of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin during the winter and spring quarter. This workshop took place on June 22, 2016.… Read the rest
SONIC is proud to co-organize the 2nd International conference on Computational Social Science by the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.
IC2S2 event attendees are granted the option to select to participate in one of our Pre-Sessions, participating in either the Datathon on June 22-23, or the Skills Workshops on June 24.… Read the rest
Congratulations to Anne Xie, for winning second place prize for the Undergrad Research Expo’s Social Sciences & Humanities poster session!
Under the help of Yun Huang‘s feedback, she was granted second place for her “Development of Social Relationships in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games” poster expo.… Read the rest
“Toward a better scientific collaboration success prediction model through the feature space expansion” by Fahimeh Ghasemian, Kamran Zamanifar, Nasser Ghasem-Aqaee, and Noshir Contractor were published in Scientometrics. The article highlights the problem with the prediction of scientific collaboration success based on the previous collaboration of scholars using machine learning techniques is addressed in this study.… Read the rest