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
Watch Libby Hemphill’s entire Speaker Series talk “What can Congress’s Twitter use teach us about framing and polarization?â€� below or on SONIC’s YouTube channel.
Watch Balazs Vedres entire Speaker Series talk “Escaping Network Gravity” below or on SONIC’s YouTube channel.
Each 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
Read about Prasad Balkundi’s talk from May 7th, 2015 and watch the full presentation below on SONIC’s YouTube Channel.
Eric Forbush was featured in the McCormick School of Engineering’s news for his work using NetLogo to model how astronauts on the mission to Mars would switch tasks mid-mission.
Read more about Eric’s work here.… Read the rest
At the 2nd International Conference on Internet Science in Brussels, Belgium on May 28th, Noshir Contractor delivered a speech titled “Leveraging WINS (Web/Internet/Network Science) to Address Societal Challenges”. Noshir was a keynote speaker along with Marietje Schaake, Christian de Larrinaga, Andrea M.… Read the rest