Cameron DeChurch presented at NASN today
Nov 28, 2018 – SONIC summer intern, Cameron DeChurch, presented at the North American Regional Social Networks (NASN) Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) today. 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, November). Using Network Science to Discover the Grand Masters of the Florentine Renaissance. Paper presented at the North American Regional Social Networks Conference. Washington, D.C.
SONIC Hosts Prof. Krackhardt
Professor Krackhardt of Carnegie Mellon guest lectured the Master of Science in Analytic’s class. Krackhard pioneered the concept of “cognitive social structures.” In the lecture, he shared some of his case studies and discussed how an individual’s power can be measured according to his/her position in the whole network structure. He provided network visualizations and demonstrated how they can provide better insights into analyzing an individual’s power.
Contractor mentors young scholars at the 104th Annual NCA Convention
This past weekend at the National Communication Association (NCA) 104th Annual Convention, Contractor provided mentorship during the sessions titled “Scholarly Recess: Professional Development for Students and Junior Scholars” for the Group Communication Division and “Pursuing Grant-Funded Research in Communication: Challenges and Opportunities across the Discipline.” He also served as a respondent for the Top Papers session for the Group Communication Division.
Alina presents at the NCA 104th Annual Convention
Alina presented the paper, “Deep Space Collaboration: Impact of Communication Latency on Collaborative Work” at the NCA 104th Annual Convention in Salt Lake City, UT.
Citation:
Lungeanu, A., Park, P., DeChurch, L. A., & Contractor, N. S. (2018, November). Deep Space Collaboration: Impact of Latency and Social Networks on Collaborative Work. Paper presented at the NCA 104th Annual Convention, Salt Lake City, UT.
Alina joins Network Science Institute as visiting faculty
Research Assistant Professor Alina Lungeanu joins Network Science Institute at Northeastern University, Boston MA as visiting faculty starting Fall 2018. Congratulations Alina!
Link: https://www.networkscienceinstitute.org/people/alina-lungeanu
9th ANN / SONIC / NICO Network Theory Workshop – Success
This past weekend over 35 scholars at leading-edge brain science and social network gathered for the 9th annual ANN-SONIC-NICO Network Theory Workshop under the theme of “Brain Science and Social Networks.” The workshop was held at Northwestern’s Kellogg Global Hub and sponsored by the Annenberg Networks Network (ANN), Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC), Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), and the Army Research Office (ARO).
Details about the workshop can be found at:
Website: https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/news-events/conference/international-workshop-on-network-theory/
Conference presentation videos and slides will be available on the website shortly.
The conference organizers would like to thank all the speakers and participants for their attendance.
Contractor publishes in @HarvardBiz
Noshir Contractor along with SONIC Affiliated Faculty, Paul Leonardi, publish, “Better People Analytics – Measure who they know, not just who they are ” in Harvard Business Review.
Citation: Leonardi, P., & Contractor, N. S. (2018, Nov-Dec). Better People Analytics: Measure who they know, not just who they are. Harvard Business Review, 70–81.
Diego presents at MESO in Buenos Aires
Diego presents the paper, “How can we assemble better interdisciplinary teams? The ‘My Dream Team’ experience at the Universidad of Buenos Aires” at the MESO Conference titled, “Contemporary Developments on Media, Culture and Society: Argentian and America Latina,” in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Citation:
Gómez-Zará, D., Andreoli, S., DeChurch, L., and Contractor, N. (2018). “How can we assemble better interdisciplinary teams? The “My Dream Team” experience at the Universidad of Buenos Aires.” MESO Conference “Contemporary Developments on Media, Culture and Society: Argentina and America Latina”, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Noshir Contractor presents at Inaugural Case Workshop on Digital Innovation
On Thursday, October 18th, Noshir Contractor will present, “Inhaling digital exhaust data from Enterprise Social Media to understand and enable teaming,” a paper with Paul Leonardi (UC Santa Barbara), Leslie DeChurch, and SONIC alum Jackie Ng (Harvard Business School) at The Inaugural Case Workshop on Digital Innovation at Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. The workshop will gather an interdisciplinary community to spark ideas that will draw out the implications of digital innovation for customers and markets, organizations, industries as well as the broader economy and society.
Link: https://weatherhead.case.edu/events/digital-innovation/
Noshir Contractor presents at Amazon
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.”