The third edition of the Internet, Politics, Policy conference will take place on September 2014. The theme this year is “Crowdsourcing for Politics and Policy”. More information.
Book: Analytical Sociology
The book Analytical Sociology: Actions and Networks is out. It includes the chapter “Online Networks and the Diffusion of Protest” by Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon, Javier Borge-Holthoefer, and Yamir Moreno
Workshop: ANN-SONIC at Annenberg West
The Annenberg Networks Network (ANN) and the Science of Networks in Communities Laboratory (SONIC) organized an invitation-only workshop on April 10-12 2014, hosted by Annenberg-USC. The list of participants included Manuel Castells, Nosh Contractor, Janet Fulk, Peter Monge, Michelle Shumate, Joseph Galaskiewicz, and Lance Bennett, among others.
Media: Newsweek
Sandra González-Bailón was quoted today in a Newsweek article on social media.
CfP: Social Movements and Social Media
The Laboratory for Internet Studies announced 2nd call for papers for their conference on the Internet and social media to be held in St. Petersburg, Russia, on September 18-19, 2014. They welcome research that focuses on the conference theme “Social Media and Social Movements”. More information.
CfP: SocInfo 2014
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 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
Talk at Northwestern
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 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).