Advancing The Science of Networks in Communities
SONIC lab is proud to welcome Peter Groenewegen, who will present a talk titled “Time as a Critical Factor in Emergency Communication” on Thursday, Oct 12, 2012 in Francis Searle Building Room 2.378 on Northwestern’s Evanston Campus. All are welcome to attend.
A series of videos that visualizes a single piece of content being shared between hundreds of thousands of individuals on Facebook. We’ve tried to capture the frenetic energy surrounding three of the most shared images, all of which were photos published on George Takei’s Page.
SONIC co-organized the NetScience and Web Science conference in 2012.
See NetSci2012.net and WebSci12.org for more info.
SONIC lab PhD researcher Alina Lungeanu presented a poster titled “The Effects of Diversity on Collaborative Innovative Networks: The Case of the Oncofertility Scientific Subfield” at the 25th Organizational Communication Mini Conference hosted by the University of Oklahoma on October 6, 2012.
For details see: http://www.ou.edu/ocmc/preconf.html
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
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…