SONIC member and Ph.D candidate in Industrial Engineering & Management Scienes, Jackie Ng, was selected as one of eight finalists in the INFORMS Organization Science Dissertation Proposal Competition, one of the most prestigious competitions available to doctoral students studying organizations. Finalists presented their dissertation proposals during a workshop on Saturday, October 21st to a panel of judges at the 2017 INFORMS annual conference in Houston. Jackie’s dissertation proposal is titled Social media and their affordances for effective teamwork.
SONIC welcomes back Bo Xu, visiting scholar, for a 2-week visit
SONIC is pleased to welcome back Bo Xu, Department of Information Systems, School of Business Administration, Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, for a 2-week visit (Nov 14th to Nov 28th, 2017).
Noshir Contractor presents at the ETCPS in Iowa City
On November 15th, 2017, Noshir presented at the Educational Technology and Computational Psychometrics Symposium organized by ACTNext: the Research, Development and Business Innovation Center at ACT, Iowa City.
Noshir’s talk was titled Some Assembly Required: Collaboration in the 21st Century.
Noshir Contractor presented at the Case Western Interdepartmental Research Seminar
On October 27th, 2017, Noshir gave a talk at the Case Western Weatherhead School of Management’s Interdepartmental Research Seminar (jointly sponsored by Design & Innovation and Organizational Behavior).
He presented on Leveraging Computational Social Science to Address Grand Societal Challenges.
Noshir Contractor co-chaired a National Academies of Science event
On October 11th, 2017, Noshir co-chaired a National Academies of Science Workshop in Washington, D.C. on Leveraging Advances in Social Network Thinking for National Security.
Noshir Contractor at ATLC2017: Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy
On October 10th, Noshir gave a welcome and plenary talk at the ATLC2017: Atlanta conference on science and innovation policy.
Noshir Contractor gave two talks as an invited speaker at CCS 2017 in Cancun, Mexico
This September, Noshir Contractor was invited to present at the Conference on Complex Systems 2017 in Cancun, Mexico.
On September 19th, Noshir presented on Leveraging Computational Social Science to address Grand Societal Challenges ( abstract ) in a session titled “Socio-Ecological Systems (SES) – Social Systems and Human Interactions.”
On September 20th, Noshir presented on Can CSS motivate New Theories, Data Sources Methods? ( abstract ) in a session titled “Computational Social Science and Complexity: From Socio-Physics to Data-Driven Research. In memoriam Rosaria Conte.”
Noshir Contractor presented at Sciences Po in Paris, France
On October 18, 2017, Noshir presented at the Sciences Po conference organized by the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations in Paris, France.
The title of his talk was Some assembly required: Leveraging computational social science to understand and enable team assembly.
SONIC Students presenting at OCMC 2017
On October 13-15, SONIC Ph.D. students Kyosuke Tanaka, Zachary Gibson, Diego Gomez-Zara, and the Ph.D. candidates Marlon Twyman and Jaqueline Ng will present at the Organizational Communication Mini Conference, held in Athens, Ohio.
Diego Gomez-Zara presenting at Computation+Journalism 2017
SONIC graduate student, Diego Gomez-Zara, will present one poster at the Computational + Journalism Symposium (C+J) 2017 held at Northwestern University on October 13th, 2017. We present a system that identifies the main entities of the article, and it uses dictionaries based on fictional characters and sentiment analysis to determine when an entity is being cast as a hero, villain, or a victim. This system interacts with news consumers directly through a browser extension. Our hope is that by informing readers when an entity is cast in one of these roles, we can make implicit bias explicit, and assist readers in applying their media literacy skills.