Interested in research on crowdfunding and crowd-sourcing? Check out the video on SONIC’s YouTube page featuring the research on Threadless, a crowd-sourced t shirt company. Watch it below, head over to the Threadless grant page, or watch it on SONIC’s YouTube channel.… Read the rest
Sophia Sullivan, advisee to SONIC Director, Noshir Contractor, was chosen as a finalist to receive the 2015 Alvah H. Chapman Jr. Outstanding Dissertation Award. Although her paper was not selected as the winner of the award, she will have the …
Noshir Contractor, SONIC Director, was a guest lecturer from July 6th-10th at the Vienna Summer School on Digital Humanities. The courses he taught included Introduction to Social Network Analysis, Descriptive Network Analytics, Predictive Network Analytics, and Leveraging Computational Social Science to Address Grand Societal Challenges.… Read the rest
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.
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