On May 28th, the Ph.D. student Diego Gómez-Zará presented his research on social movements at the 67th conference of the International Communication Association (ICA). This year, the conference was hosted in San Diego, USA. Diego presented on “The Role of Social Movement Organizations in Twitter: Evidence From the Chilean Student Movement.” By using a mixed-methods approach, incorporating network analysis, sentiment analysis, and content analysis, the study identifies differences in how social movements’ information flow, network position, and attitudes evolve.
Leslie DeChurch will present at the Mars Mission Social Sciences Workshop
On may 30th, 2017 Leslie DeChurch will present at the Mars Mission Social Sciences Workshop at the Buzz Aldrin Space Institute in Cape Canaveral, FL. The title of her paper, co-authored with Noshir Contractor and Michael Schultz, is SCALE: Shared cognitive architecture for long-term exploration.
SONIC members presenting at the 2017 ICA in San Diego, CA
Noshir Contractor and two SONIC graduate students: Diego Gomez Zara, and Zachary Gibson are going to present at the 67th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) on May 25-29 in San Diego, CA.
One of the papers, co-authored by Noshir Contractor, will be presented at the Top Paper Panel for the Organizational Communication Division:
Fu, Sophia, Shumate, Michelle, & Contractor, Noshir. Collective Innovation Adoption across Interorganizational Systems: Organizational Boundary, Social Networks, and Decision-Making Status.
Please follow the link for all the presentations’ abstracts.
Noshir Contractor presented at the UC Davis Institute for Social Sciences
On May 18, 2017 SONIC Director Noshir Contractor gave a Gerald P. Mohrmann Memorial Lecture on Leveraging Computational Social Science to Address Grand Societal Challenges.
The increased access to big data about social phenomena in general, and network data in particular, has been a windfall for social scientists. But these exciting opportunities must be accompanied with careful reflection on how big data can motivate new theories and methods. Using examples of his research in the area of networks, Contractor will argue that Computational Social Science serves as the foundation to unleash the intellectual insights locked in big data. More importantly, he will illustrate how these insights offer social scientists in general, and social network scholars in particular, an unprecedented opportunity to engage more actively in monitoring, anticipating and designing interventions to address grand societal challenges.
Noshir Contractor and Leslie DeChurch presented at SIOP 2017: Exploring New Frontiers: Building Better Teams on Earth and Beyond
On Friday, April 28th, Noshir and Leslie presented a paper Exploring New Frontiers: Building Better Teams on Earth and Beyond in a symposium at the 2017 SIOP conference in Orlando, Florida.
Jacqueline Ng, Brennan Antone, Zachary Gibson, Suzanne T. Bell, Leslie A. DeChurch, Noshir Contractor: Crew Recommender for Effective Work in Space: CREWS
The prospect of sending a team to Mars by the year 2030 challenges organizational scientists to build new conceptual lenses and leverage advanced analytic and computational methods to hasten understanding and prediction of team performance. This symposium showcases 5 recent advances, all inspired by the challenge of space exploration.
Noshir Contractor gave the opening keynote address at the 5th Annual Network Leadership Training Academy
Noshir Contractor gave the opening keynote address at the 5th Annual Network Leadership Training Academy, titled “Building and Leveraging Powerful Social Networks” on April 26th. The Academy is organized by the Center on Network Science at the University of Colorado, Denver. For more details, see http://bit.ly/NLTA2017.
Welcome back on campus, Noshir!
We welcome back Noshir Contractor to the Northwestern University campus after spending the 2017 Winter Quarter as the Distinguished WTO Visiting Scholar at the Center for Work, Technology, & Organizations (WTO) in the Department of Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University’s School of Engineering. For more details, please see here.
SONIC PhD candidate Jackie Ng’s paper judged as one of the best accepted papers at AOM 2017
“Teaming at the Limit: Enhancing Team Effectiveness with Enterprise Social Media Affordances”, a paper written by SONIC lab member, Jackie Ng, in collaboration with Noshir Contractor, Paul Leonardi & Leslie DeChurch, was judged to be one of the best accepted papers (top 10%) in the 2017 Academy of Management Meeting taking place in Atlanta Georgia, August 4-8. This high honor entitles the paper to be published in the Proceedings of the 2017 AoM Meeting.
Brennan Antone will join SONIC as a PhD student in Fall 2017
Currently, Brennan is working in SONIC as an undergraduate research assistant. He is an invaluable member of the CREWS project team.
Brennan will be entering the PhD program in Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences at Northwestern University in Fall 2017, and will continue to work with SONIC in his new role. He is the recipient of a Harold Richards Graduate Fellowship for researchers in organization theory and systems analysis. Congratulations to Brennan!
ANN-SONIC 8th International Workshop on Network Theory, 2017
The 8th ANN-SONIC International Workshop on Network Theory is being held at the University of Southern California (USC) on March 23-24, 2017. The theme this year is “Wisdom in Networks.”
For details on program, speakers the participants for this invitational workshop please see this link.
SONIC and ATLAS students presented three posters at the workshop:
Kyosuke Tanaka, Mo Ran, Jeremy Piech, & Noshir Contractor, Follow the Crowds? A Quasi-Experimental Study of “Social Signal” Effects on Online Design Ratings.
Jacqueline Ng, Leslie A. DeChurch, & Noshir S. Contractor, Information Sharing in Virtual Teams: How Group Information Processing Norms Affect Online Team Discussions.
Lindsay Larson, Diego Gomez-Zara, Benjamin Jones, Leslie DeChurch, & Noshir Contractor, The Language of Leadership Networks in Multiteam Systems.
The workshop is being organized by the Annenberg Networks Network (ANN) at the University of Southern California, the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) research group at the Northwestern University.