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Talk: Pablo Barberá visits DiMeNet

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon October 9, 2015blog

Pablo Barberá gave a talk today on his research on social media. Pablo is a Research Fellow at the NYU Center for Data Science, and in July 2016 he will be joining the faculty of the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California (more on his bio). The title and abstract of his talk are below.

Talk: SMaPP Global – NYU

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon October 3, 2015blog

Sandra gave a talk at the first Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) Global Conference, which took place at the NYU’s Politics Department. More information can be found here.

Article: Protest Campaigns in Social Media

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon August 24, 2015blog

The article “Networked discontent: The anatomy of protest campaigns in social media”, by Sandra González-Bailón and Ning Wang has just been published in Social Networks. The full article can be found here.

Talks: PolNet’15

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon June 22, 2015blog

Sijia Yang presented a working paper titled “Semantic Networks and Public Opinion”, a draft chapter for the forthcoming Handbook of Political Networks, edited by Jennifer Nicoll Victor, Mark Lubell, and Alexander H. Montgomery.

During the main conference, Sandra González-Bailón presented the paper “The Critical Periphery in the Growth of Social Protests” (joint work with with Pablo Barberá, Ning Wang, Richard Bonneau, John Jost, Jonathan Nagler, and Josh Tucker)

Media: eldiario.es

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon June 6, 2015blog

Spanish newspaper El Diario interviewed Sandra González-Bailón about her talk at the NetSci’15 conference and the role that networks play in the emergence of collective action.

Talks: NetSci’15

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon June 4, 2015blog

Sandra González-Bailón gave two invited talks during the NetSci2015 conference: the first as part of the Computational Social Science satellite; the second as a plenary talk in the main conference.

Conference: ICA’15

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon May 24, 2015blog

The workshop Communication Science in the Digital Age: New Frontiers in Theory and Research took place in May 21st in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The meeting gathered contributing authors to the book Handbook of Communication in the Networked Age, forthcoming with Oxford University Press and edited by Brooke Foucault Welles and Sandra González-Bailón.

During the ICA main conference, Bo Mai presented the paper “Network Effects in the Academic Market: Mechanisms for Hiring and Placing Ph.D.s in Communication (2007-2014)“

Talk: Computational Social Science

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon May 17, 2015blog

Sandra González-Bailón gave a keynote talk at the 2015 Computational Social Science Summit, hosted by the Kellogg School of Management and co-organized by the research groups NICO and SONIC. A video of the talk, titled “Network Science and the Study of Political Protests”, can be found here.

Video: recruitment dynamics in communication

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon May 14, 2015blog

Talk: Hong Kong School of Communication

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon May 6, 2015blog

Sandra González-Bailón will be giving invited talks at the Hong Kong Baptist University School of Communication on May 7 and 8. Her talks are entitled “Communication Science in the Networked Age” and “The Building Blocks of Network Research”.