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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Media: Pacific Standard
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
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
Talk: Big Data and Politics Conference

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
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 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
Talks: PolNet’15
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)