For details see: http://www.ou.edu/ocmc/preconf.html
Facebook: Now Serving 1 Billion Users Every Month
Contractor delivered the opening plenary at HUBbub 2012: The Hub Zero conference on September 24, 2012
Building and Evaluating an Interdisciplinary Team in Oncofertility
Dr. Kate Waimey Timmerman and SONIC lab member Alina Lungeanu have written a blog post in Team Science Toolkit entitled Building and Evaluating an Interdisciplinary Team in Oncofertility. Be sure to check it out.
https://www.teamsciencetoolkit.cancer.gov/public/ExpertBlog.aspx?tid=4
A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization
A 61-million-person experiment in social influence and political mobilization
Robert M. Bond, Christopher J. Fariss, Jason J. Jones, Adam D. I. Kramer, Cameron Marlow, Jaime E. Settle & James H. Fowler
Results from a randomized controlled trial of political mobilization messages delivered to 61 million Facebook users during the 2010 US congressional elections show that the messages directly influenced political self-expression, information seeking and real-world voting behaviour of millions of people. Furthermore, the messages not only influenced the users who received them but also the users’ friends, and friends of friends. The effect of social transmission on real-world voting was greater than the direct effect of the messages themselves. Read more…