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.

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)“

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.

The Journal of Communication just published online the article “Network Effects in the Academic Market: Mechanisms for Hiring and Placing PhDs in Communication (2007–2014)“, co-authored by DiMeNet members Bo Mai, Jiaying Liu and Sandra González-Bailón.

The May 2015 special issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science will feature articles by Sandra González-Bailón and Sijia Yang. González-Bailón’s article “Signals of Public Opinion in Online Communication: A Comparison of Methods and Data Sources” was co-authored by Georgios Paltoglou. Yang’s article “Constructing Recommendation Systems for Effective Health Messages Using Content, Collaborative, and Hybrid Algorithms” was co-authored by Joseph N. Cappella and Sungkyoung Lee.

Sandra González-Bailón will be speaking at the Network and Criminality Workshop on April 21st at the University of Oxford Mathematical Institute. Her talk is entitled “Core-Periphery Dynamics in Protest Networks”.