SONIC News

Team assembly paper published in Social Networks

Paper titled Motivations for self-assembling into project teams by Mengxiao Zhu, Yun Huang, and Noshir Contractor has been published in Social Networks, Volume 35, Issue 2, May 2013. Available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378873313000166    read more »

 

Contractor presents at a National Cancer Institute Webinar

Contractor delivered a webinar for the National Cancer Institute, Behavioral Research Program, Science of Research and Technology Branch, Speaker Series on “Disruptive Research Approaches from Academia, Government, and Industry” on March 28, 2013.  read more »

 

Research on networks among women in science by SONIC members Lindsay Young, Sneha Narayan and Noshir Contractor featured at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston on February 16, 2013

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Contractor presented his research on team assembly at Northwestern U.’s Kellogg Attitudes Motivation and Processing (KAMP) Speaker Series on February 8, 2013

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Paper on MOOCs with University of Maryland iSchool co-authors nominated for Best Paper Award at HICSS 2013

The paper titled The dynamics of open, peer-to-peer learning: What factors influence participation in the P2P University? was nominated for a Best Paper Award at the Proceedings of the 46th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (Learning Analytics and Networked Learning track), 2013. Authors: June... read more »

 

Paper co-authored with collaborators at RPI and NCI wins Top Paper Award at HICSS 2013

Paper titled Towards Next Generation Health Data Exploration: A Data Cube-based Investigation into Population Statistics for Tobacco by James P. McCusker, Abdul Shaikh, Noshir Contractor, Paul Courtney, Jeongmin Lee, Glen Morgan, Zaria Tatalovich, Chavon Thomas, and Deborah L. McGuinness received the Top Paper award... read more »

 

Article by Brian Keegan (SONIC alum, now at Northeastern U), Darren Gergle (Northwestern U) and Noshir Contractor (SONIC) titled “Hot Off the Wiki: Structures and Dynamics of Wikipedia’s Coverage of Breaking News Events” published in American Behavioral Scientist

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Contractor delivered a keynote at the 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Informatics in Washington on Dec 16, 2012.

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Contractor presented a seminar titled “Some Assembly Required: Organizing in the 21st Century” at Northwestern University, Qatar, on Dec 2, 2012