SONIC News

El acceso a grandes volúmenes de información sobre los fenómenos sociales en general y sobre la red en particular tiene un valor extraordinario para los científicos sociales. Pero esta apasionante oportunidad debe estar acompañada de la reflexión sobre cómo los big data pueden dar lugar a nuevas teorías y métodos.… Read the rest

SONIC JD/PhD candidate Ryan Whalen, along with coauthors Yun Huang (senior research associate at SONIC), Craig Tanis, Anup Sawant (senior software developer at SONIC), Brian Uzzi (SONIC affiliated faculty) and Noshir Contractor (SONIC lab director) recently published an article titled “Citation Distance: Measuring Changes in Scientific Search Strategies” in the Proceedings of the 25th International Conference Companion on World Wide Web.… Read the rest

Lab Director Noshir Contractor, IEMS Professor Seyed Iravani, and SONIC PhD candidate Jackie Ng were recently awarded a unique grant from Northwestern University’s Office of the Provost and Faculty Distance Learning Workshop. Their project titled “Fostering Effective Online Discussion in Higher Education With ‘Nebula’, a Graphical Interface for Discussion Boards” was one of only nine projects to receive funding as part of an initiative to increase Northwestern’s visibility in digital and online teaching environments.… Read the rest

Lab Director Noshir Contractor presented his talk “Some Assembly Required: Organizing in the 21st Century” during a Research Group Talk at the University of California Santa Barbara’s Department of Computer Science. Click here for a link to the event page.… Read the rest

Daniel A. Newman Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, School of Labor & Employment Relations University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dan Newman is spending his sabbatical at SONIC doing research on team assembly, in collaboration with Marlon Twyman, Leslie DeChurch, and Noshir Contractor.… Read the rest

Congratulations to the Winter 2016 Data Science Interns! Thanks for your hard work this quarter and for your thoughtful final presentations. We look forward to seeing many of you again next quarter and wish you all the very best in your future endeavors!… Read the rest

Data Science Intern, Rachel Li was awarded a grant by the Northwestern University Office of Undergraduate Research to help conduct research on behalf of SONIC Lab through the Network Sciences Collaborative Technology Alliance at the United States Military Academy this spring.… Read the rest

Lab Director, Noshir Contractor, co-organized the Designing Online Experiments: Citizen Science Approaches to Research Workshop at the 19th Annual Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing Conference in San Francisco on February 27th, 2016

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Co-organizer, Designing Online Experiments: Citizen Science Approaches to Research Workshop at the 19th Annual Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW) Conference, February 27, 2016, San Francisco, CA.… Read the rest

Lab Director, Noshir Contractor, presented on a panel titled Issues of Social Media and Social Networks for the Communication of Science Related to Contentious Societal Issues at the National Academies of Science’s Committee on the Science of Science Communication: A Research Agenda in Washington DC on February 24th, 2016.… Read the rest

Lab Director, Noshir Contractor delivered a talk entitled “Team Science for the 21st Century” as an invited speaker at the 3rd Kavli Symposium on Science Journalism in Washington DC on February 15th, 2016.

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Contractor, N. (February 15, 2016). Team Science for the 21st Century.… Read the rest