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SONIC welcomes Julia Neidhardt who will be a visiting scholar from the Institute of Software Technology and Interactive Systems at Vienna University of Technology from August 5 to November 15, 2013.
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SONIC visitor Julija Mell co-authored, with her colleagues at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, an article titled “The Catalyst Effect: The Impact of Transactive Memory System Structure on Team Performance” in the Academy of Management Journal
Bo Xu (SONIC alum), Yun Huang and Noshir Contractor published an article titled “Exploring Twitter networks in parallel computing environments”
Reference:
Xu, B., Huang, Y., & Contractor, N. (2013). Exploring Twitter networks in parallel computing environments. Presented at the XSEDE ’13: Proceedings of the Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Gateway to Discovery, ACM Request Permissions. doi:10.1145/2484762.2484811
Abstract:
Millions of users follow each other on Twitter and form a large and complex network. The size of the network creates statistical and computational challenges on exploring and examining individual behavior on Twitter. Using a sample of 697,628 Korean Twitter users and 34 million relations, this study investigates the patterns of unfollow behavior on Twitter, i.e. people removing others from their Twitter follow lists. We use Exponential Random Graph Models (p*/ERGMs) and Statnet in R to examine the impacts of reciprocity, status, embeddedness, homophily, and informativeness on tie dissolution. We perform data processing, statistics calculation, network sampling, and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation on Gordon, a unique supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). The process demonstrates the role of advanced computing technologies in social science studies.
Contractor co-organized a team assembly exercise and served on a panel about interdisciplinary research at the Digital Society and Social Technologies (DSST) Summer Institute at College Park, MD on July 29th and 30th
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Noshir Contractor delivered a keynote at the 2013 Big Ten Development Conference in Evanston on July 26, 2013
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Brooke Foucault-Welles (2012 Ph.D. alum from SONIC), won Special Mention Recognition from the Communication & Technology Division of the International Communication Association for her dissertation. Dr. Foucault-Welles is Assistant Professor of Communication at Northeastern University.
Noshir Contractor presented overview of Team Assembly at the Workshop of Science Team Dynamics and Effectiveness organized by the Committee on the Science of Team Science appointed by the US National Research Council
View the public agenda for this workshop. View video of presentation here
SONIC’s efforts in developing a Virtual Web Observatory as part of the Web Science Trust Network (WSTNet) featured in Dialog magazine published by Northwestern University, School of Communication.
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Noshir Contractor presented a lecture organized at the University of Oxford by the Said Business School and by the Complex Agent-Based Dynamic Networks (CABDyn) Complexity Centre on Jun 14
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