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Noshir Contractor delivered a keynote at the International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci 2013) on June 6, 2013 in Copenhagen
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Paper by Lindsay Young, Sneha Narayan, and Noshir Contractor titled “Issue spaces as semantic and social networks: Does what you know determine who you know?” was presented at the Sunbelt 2013 Conference in Hamburg, Germany on May 26, 2013.
In a complex and crowded public sphere, a better understanding of the mechanisms that structure social issues and allow them to thrive within the competitive issue ecology is needed. Unlike collaborative spaces that exist within the boundaries of a field or industry, an issue space is comprised of actors from a variety of contexts brought together by a common interest in the focal issue. This makes patterns in actors’ conceptions of the issue an important factor to account for when identifying processes underlying their social interactions. Therefore, we seek to determine the extent to which shared interpretations of an issue motivate collaborations amongst members of an issue space. To this end, we examine a population of professionals working in the gender and sustainability issue space. Drawing from actors’ responses to an open-ended survey question about their interpretation of this space, we use centering resonance analysis to capture the semantic similarities between actors. Then, using p*/ERGM techniques, we estimate the effect of semantic similarity on the collaborative structure of the issue space. Examining the relationship between semantic and social dimensions of an issue space shows how actors’ interpretations of the issue affect their strategic interactions to advance the issue. More broadly, delineating these two dimensions reveals an issue as being constituted by discourse and social interaction. In particular, the degree to which the semantic and social relationships within an issue space reinforce one another has implications for how the meaning of an issue is controlled and managed in the public sphere.
Paper co-authored with collaborators at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam was presented at the Sunbelt 2013 conference in Hamburg, Germany on May 24, 2013
Paper by Julie M Birkholz, Alina Lungeanu, Rena Bakhshi, Peter Groenewegen, Maarten van Steen, and Noshir Contractor titled “Methodological specifications for application of the mean-field model for large scale social networks” was presented at the Sunbelt 2013 conference in Hamburg, Germany on May 24, 2013.
Paper by Cindy Weng, Yun Huang & Noshir Contractor titled “A Multilevel Model to Predict Organizational Turnover” was presented at the Sunbelt 2013 conference in Hamburg, Germany on May 22, 2013
Noshir Contractor was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) from 2013 to 2016.
Paper by Mengxiao Zhu, Noshir Contractor and Stanley Waserman titled Correspondence Analysis of Multilevel Networks was presented at the Annual Sunbelt Social Networks Conference in Hamburg on May 25, 2013.
Team assembly paper published in Social Networks
Paper titled Motivations for self-assembling into project teams by Mengxiao Zhu, Yun Huang, and Noshir Contractor has been published in Social Networks, Volume 35, Issue 2, May 2013. Available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/
Contractor presents at a National Cancer Institute Webinar
Contractor delivered a webinar for the National Cancer Institute, Behavioral Research Program, Science of Research and Technology Branch, Speaker Series on “Disruptive Research Approaches from Academia, Government, and Industry” on March 28, 2013.
Research on networks among women in science by SONIC members Lindsay Young, Sneha Narayan and Noshir Contractor featured at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston on February 16, 2013
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