Advancing The Science of Networks in Communities
In the latest episode of the Science podcast, host Sarah Crespi talks with Noshir Contractor about his AAAS Session on Pairing Teams for, and (Re-) pairing Teams during Long-Duration Space Exploration.
Check out the podcast article here or listen to the recording below.
Sharing wonderful news! A paper co-authored by Noshir Contractor, and collaborators (Youyi, Yunjian, Zhenghui, Mingxian, Yan, and Wei Chen) was accepted for publication in the Networks and Spatial Economics (NETS) Journal. The paper is titled “Modeling Multi-Year Customers’ Considerations and Choices in China’s Auto Market Using Two-Stage Bipartite Network Analysis.”
Bi, Y., Qiu, Y., Sha, Z., Wang, M., Fu, Y., Contractor, N., & Chen, W. (2021). Modeling Multi-Year Customers’ Considerations and Choices in China’s Auto Market Using Two-Stage Bipartite Network Analysis. Networks and Spatial Economics, doi:10.1007/s11067-021-09526-9
Tomorrow (03/23), Professor Noshir Contractor will present a talk on “People Analytics: Using Digital Exhaust from the Web to Leverage Network Insights in the Workplace” at the National Institute of Industrial Engineering Mumbai Research Talk Series.
His talk will discuss how can we leverage people analytics to mine digital exhaust data created by individuals everyday in their digital transactions and footprint. He will also cover empirical evidence gained from research conducted in corporate enterprises to simulated long duration space exploration
Details of the event can be found below:
Date: 23rd March 2021
Time: 5:30 PM IST (7:00AM CST)
WebEx link : https://lnkd.in/gtpyXVU
We are thrilled to announce that we have another publication in the Social Networks Journal. This time, the article covers the use of a Trellis, a mobile platform created by the Human Nature Lab at the Yale Institute for NEtwork Science to collect social network data in hard-to-reach communities.
Congratulations to Research Assistant Professor Alina Lungeanu and our Lab Director Professor Noshir Contractor!
Citation:
Lungeanu, A., McKnight, M., Negron, R., Munar, W., Christakis, N. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2021). Using Trellis software to enhance high-quality large-scale network data collection in the field. Social Networks, 66:171-184. doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2021.02.007
Are you familiar with predictive analytics? Have you ever wondered how it can be used to better understand employees within an organization? Check out Relational Analytics Dashboard (RAD), a software we developed that can be used as a decision-aid for important managerial decisions. We’ve just launched our latest RAD Overview video on our Youtube Channel. Don’t forget to check them out!
Late last year, the International Communication Association (ICA) announced Professor Noshir Contractor as ICA’s President-Elect-Select. Read more about Noshir’s journey and take on ICA at Northwestern University School of Communication’s Winter 2021 Dialogue here.
This week, Noshir Contractor presented a talk at the Institute for Analytical Sociology International Roundtable on Computational Social Science. The title of his talk is People Analytics: Understanding & Enabling the Future of Work on Earth — and in Space.
If you missed the talk, watch a recording of it here: https://lnkd.in/ezp2uvQ
Network Canvas Software Suite is a free open-source set of tools for the collection of social network data fuded by the National Institutes of Health (R01 DA042711). This suite consist of three applications: Architect, Interviewer, and Server. We recently published an article in the Social Networks Journal that elaborates on the key decisions in the design of an interviewer-assisted network data collection. Click here to read the article and here to find out more about Network Canvas.
Citation:
Birkett, M., Melville, J., Janulis, P., Phillips, G., Contractor, N., & Hogan, B. (2021). Network Canvas: Key decisions in the design of an interviewer-assisted network data collection software suite. Social Networks, 66:114-124. doi: 10.1016/j.socnet.2021.02.003
At the Vikram Sarabhai Birth Centenary Tribute, Contractor highlighted the role and impact of satellite television from four met theoretical viewpoints. His talk is featured last Friday (02/19) on The Hindu. Click here to read the article.
Today Noshir Contractor presented a talk on Metatheoretical perspectives on satellite television and development in India: What we learned – and did not learn – from SITE to inform digital media in contemporary India at the Vikram Sarabhai Birth Centenary Tribute.
Abstract:
In 1988, along with Arvind Singhal and Ev Rogers, I co-authored an article titled Metatheoretical perspectives on satellite television and development in India in the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media. In that article, we analyzed the role and impact of satellite television from four metatheoretical viewpoints: the utopian view that technology is intrinsically good for humankind, the dystopian view that technology is an unmitigated curse, the neutral view that technology per se has no intrinsic effects on society, and the contingency view that the potentially desirable and undesirable impacts of technology are differentially determined by the context in which the technology is introduced at a particular time.
