Noshir Contractor presented research on teams going into isolated (space) environments, titled “Social isolation: A challenge in and out of this world.” at an invitational workshop organized by Amazon on October 17 in Seattle titled “All Boats Rise? Social Capital, Promise and Peril” in a session titled “No One is an (I) Land.”
Kyosuke Tanaka’s paper accepted to #ComplexNetworks2018 conference
SONIC research graduate, Kyosuke will be traveling to Cambridge, UK for the Complex Networks 2018 conference. A paper by Kyosuke Tanaka and Agnes Horvat, an Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Northwestern, has been accepted and will also be included in the conference proceedings.
Their paper, titled “Network Strategies and Efficiency in Human Communication Networks,” explains the effect of networking strategies on efficiency in communication networks. Tanaka and Horvat use data-driven computer simulations to examine how manipulations in the form of added, deleted, strengthened and weakened communication channels alter the local and global efficiency of communication networks. Their results indicate that there is a clear trade-off between networking strategies and efficiency. Their findings reassess conventional wisdom about the effectiveness of networking strategies.
Citation: Tanaka, K., & Horvát, E-Á. In Press. Networking Strategies and Efficiency in Human Communication Networks. Proceedings The 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications COMPLEX NETWORKS 2018.
Cameron DeChurch & Noshir Contractor will present their paper in Cambridge
SONIC summer research intern Cameron DeChurch will be traveling to Cambridge, UK to present his paper at the Complex Networks 2018 conference. This summer he used historical records to construct digital networks of the collaboration among Florentine Renaissance painters. His paper with Noshir Contractor, “Using Network Science to Discover the Grand Masters of the Florentine Renaissance” finds that rather than the household names of Michelangelo and DaVinci, it was the grand masters like Verrochio and Perugino who ultimately had more impact through their lineage, by training painters who would go on to produce great works.Citation:
DeChurch, C.J., & Contractor, N.S. (2018, December). Using Network Science to Discover the Grand Masters of the Florentine Renaissance. Paper presented at the International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications. Cambridge, UK.
Welcome! New SONIC Members
Welcome!
Yuanxin Wang is a visiting scholar from Peking University. She will be working on the Enterprise Social Media project, and her research interests include social media, social network analysis, market and media analysis, and user behavior. She graduated from Beijing Normal University with a B.A. in Communications.
Dongping Zhang is a first-year Ph.D. student in Technology & Social Behavior. His research interests include social network analysis, structural estimation, machine learning, big data, and computational social science. He will be contributing to the Enterprise Social Media project. Dongping graduated from the University of Chicago with an M.A. in Computational Social Science and from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Statistics and a B.A. in Economics.
Niloufar Izadinia is a second year Ph.D. student in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences. Her research interests include social network analysis, optimization, and data science. Niloufar will work on the NASA CREWS (Project RED Optimization). She graduated from the University of Technology, Tehran, Iran with an M.S. in Industrial Engineering.
Brent Hoagland finished his M.A. in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and will support the SONIC and ATLAS labs with administrative and operational research tasks. He plans to continue graduate school in the near future with research interests in economic sociology, social studies of finance & accounting, social network analysis, and sociology of knowledge.
Noshir Contractor presents at the Argentinian Ministry of Modernization
Noshir Contractor and Diego Gómez-Zará, Ph.D. student in Technology and Social Behavior, head to Buenos Aires to present, “Some Assembly Required: Organizing in the 21st Century” at the Argentinian Ministry of Modernization of the Nation.
