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Article by Brian Keegan (SONIC alum, now at Northeastern U), Darren Gergle (Northwestern U) and Noshir Contractor (SONIC) titled “Hot Off the Wiki: Structures and Dynamics of Wikipedia’s Coverage of Breaking News Events” published in American Behavioral Scientist

2013-01-21 No Comments

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Contractor delivered a keynote at the 2012 ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Informatics in Washington on Dec 16, 2012.

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2012-12-20 1 Comment

“SONIC lab is near state-of-the-art in our collaborations between social scientists and software developers.”

-Noshir Contractor, Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences

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Contractor presented a seminar titled “Some Assembly Required: Organizing in the 21st Century” at Northwestern University, Qatar, on Dec 2, 2012

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SONIC members Sneha Narayan and Noshir Contractor participated in a workshop on “Climate Change and Sustainability Communication- New Tools and Trends” held on December 1, 2012 at Northwestern University Qatar.

2012-12-01 No Comments

The event was associated with the annual meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, COP 18, being held in Doha, Qatar. For more information see: http://bit.ly/cop18-NU-Q

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SONIC publication receives 2012 National Communication Association’s Organizational Communication Division’s Article of the Year Award

2012-11-21 No Comments
Whitbred, R., Fonti, F., Steglich, C., & Contractor, N. (2011). From Microactions to Macrostructure and Back: A Structurational Approach to the Evolution of Organizational Networks. Human Communication Research, 37(3), 404–433.
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Contractor delivered a keynote at the 1st China National Conference on Social Computing (NCSC 2012) on November 16, 2012 in Beijing.

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Contractor delivered a keynote at a conference on “Team Science: History, Theory, & Concepts” organized by Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis on November 9, 2012

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Contractor delivered the dinner keynote at the “Advancing the Science of Multiteam Systems” meeting in Varenna, Italy on October 28th.

2012-10-31 No Comments

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Contractor to deliver opening keynote at the 1st Michigan State University Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Days event on October 26, 2012

2012-10-25 No Comments

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sonicnu SONIC Research Group @sonicnu ·
4 Mar

This Friday, March 6, join Creative Agency in the Age of AI at Northwestern from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. for a day of panels and conversation on human-AI collaboration. Organized by Duri Long, Noshir Contractor (@noshir), and Karan Ahuja.

More info: https://www.hci.northwestern.edu/news-events/colloquia-special-events/hci-d-ai-symposia-2026/creative-agency-in-the-age-of-ai.html

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17 Feb

Congrats to NU undergrads Shraeya Iyer, Jeffrey Tu, & Isabel Su—presenting at NetSciX (Feb 17–20) in New Zealand, supported by @BuffettInst scholarship!

Talk: A Multiplex Lens on Influencer Performance, Group Synergy, and Network Centralization
Co-Authors: Megan Chan & @noshir

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11 Feb

New in Research Policy with Noshir Contractor (@noshir), Pamela Hinds, Aaron Schecter, and Elisa Mattarelli: Want better ideas in open innovation? It matters who gives you feedback — and who they're connected to.

Check it out: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733325001611

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3 Feb

SIAM News: Diego Gómez-Zará & Noshir Contractor (@noshir) on AI for better, more representative teams.

In MyDreamTeam (380+ participants), creativity was highest when people chose teammates—with representation-aware AI nudges.

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9 Jan

In an in-press study, Leslie DeChurch, Alina Lungeanu, Megan Chan, and Noshir Contractor analyze data from NASA space analog teams and Ancient Rome, finding that dyadic shared leadership is uniquely unstable, while solo or 3+ leader structures persist.

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