Media: Medical Daily

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon December 8, 2015blog

Medical Daily covers our PLOS one paper today: “Social Media Activists, Called ‘Slacktivists,’ Help More Than You Think”.

Media: Vox — Policy & Politics

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon December 8, 2015blog

Vox talked today about the recently published paper “The Critical Periphery in the Growth of Social Protests” in a post titled “Changing your Facebook profile picture is doing more good than you might think”.

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Video: The Critical Periphery of Protest Networks

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon December 7, 2015video

Media: Pacific Standard

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon December 3, 2015blog

The recently published paper “The Critical Periphery in the Growth of Social Protests” was covered today by the Pacific Standard in a piece titled “The Upside of Slacktivism“.

Article: The Critical Periphery in Protests

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon December 1, 2015blog

The article “The Critical Periphery in the Growth of Social Protests”, which results from a collaboration between the DiMeNet group and the SMaPP lab at NYU, was published today in PLoS ONE. A summary of the findings can be found in The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage.

Talk: Bruno Gonçalves visits DiMeNet

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon October 30, 2015blog

Bruno Gonçalves gave a talk today on his research on online networks. Bruno is a Research Fellow at the NYU Center for Data Science; he was recently awarded the Junior Scientist 2015 by the Complex Systems Society. The title and abstract of his talk are below.

Talk: Big Data and Politics Conference

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon October 23, 2015blog

Sandra gave a keynote talk at the The Empiricist’s Challenge Conference, held at The Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES). Her talk, titled Networks, Politics, and Social Change, gave an overview of her recent research and a preview of her book Decoding the Social World: When Data Science meets Communication (forthcoming with MIT Press).

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.