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CfP: SocInfo 2014

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon March 18, 2014announcement

Important dates

Full paper submission: August 8
Notification of acceptance: September 19
Submission of final version: October 10
Conference dates: November 10-13

Call for papers

The International Conference on Social Informatics (SocInfo) is an interdisciplinary venue that brings together researchers from informatics and social sciences to help fill the gap between the two communities. The goal of the conference is to contribute to the definition and exploration of common methodologies and research goals that encompass the objectives and motivate the two disciplines. More information.

Talk: Paper Presentation at Sunbelt

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon February 20, 2014talk

Sandra presented a paper at the XXXIV Social Networks Conference organized by INSNA. The working paper is joint work with Pablo Barberá and it is titled “The Self-Organization of Mass Political Protests in the Absence of Media Freedom”.

CfP: Web Science 2014

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon January 12, 2014announcement

The call for papers and workshops for the Web Science conference, to be held in Bloomington in June 2014, is now out. More information.

Talk at Northwestern

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon December 5, 2013talk

Sandra gave a talk at the Media, Technology and Society seminar series of the School of Communication, Northwestern University.

Talk: Computational Social Science Panel

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon November 22, 2013blog

Sandra joined a panel on Computational Social Science organized by Brooke Foucault-Welles at the NCA conference held in Washington DC. Other invited panelists included Noshir Contractor (Northwestern Univeristy), Steven Corman (Arizona State University), Marshall Scott Poole (University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne) and Kevin Crowston (Syracuse University).

Article: Big Data and Human Geography

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon November 1, 2013publication

González-Bailón, S. (2013). “Big Data and the Fabric of Human Geography”, Dialogues in Human Geography, vol. 3 no. 3 292-296

Article: Diffusion Dynamics

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon October 24, 2013blog

Baños, R., Borge-Holthoefer, J., Wang, N., Moreno, Y., and González-Bailón, S. (2013). “Diffusion Dynamics with Changing Network Composition”, Entropy (special issue on Social Networks and Information Diffusion), 15(11): 4553-4568

Talk: Center for Information Technology Policy

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon October 17, 2013blog

Sandra gave a talk at the Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University. The title of the presentation was “Online Networks and the Coordination of Political Protests”. A video of the talk can be found here.

Workshop: Social Media and Political Participation

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon October 4, 2013blog

A one-day workshop was organized today by the NYU’s Center for Social and Political Behavior. Other invited participants included faculty members and graduate students from Princeton, NYU, GWU, UNC, and Berkman.

Workshop: Responsible Research Agendas for Big Data

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon September 19, 2013announcement

We had interesting discussions last week at the invitation-only workshop “Responsible Research Agendas for Public Policy in the Era of Big Data”, organized by the Oxford Internet Institute in conjunction with the journal Policy & Internet and held at the Harvard Faculty Club. Check this blog entry by Vicki Nash for an interesting summary of the event.