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”.

Josh Becker, DiMeNet member, will be presenting a paper and a poster in two forthcoming conferences:

• Becker, J. Collective Decisions as Coordination Processes – The Influence of Hubs. Computational Social Science Summit. Evanston, IL. May 2015.
• Becker, J. Complex Coordination: The Influence of Hubs on Collective Outcomes. NetSci. Zaragoza, Spain. June, 2015.

Sijia Yang has been awarded a fellowship to attend the 2015 Political Networks Conference. He will discuss his work on “Semantic Networks and Public Opinion”, forthcoming as a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Political Networks.

Vice’s Motherboard interviewed DiMeNet member Tim Libert last week about his research on third-party tracking. Libert found that 91 percent of health related web pages initiate HTTP requests to third-parties. “This isn’t just commercial sites who need to turn a profit, these are organizations you trust: the government, non-profits, universities,” said Libert.