Media: Quartz

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon December 10, 2015blog

The native digital newspaper Quartz writes today about our paper on the critical periphery in protest networks. You can read the piece here.

Media: attn:

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon December 9, 2015blog

More coverage for our PLOS one paper came out today at attn: “This Study Is the Perfect Response to People Who Hate on Social Media Activism”.

Media: Upvoted

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon December 9, 2015blog

Upvoted wrote today about our recent PLOS One paper. The piece goes under the headline “New Study Shows Armchair Activists Actually Make a Difference”.

Media: Medical Daily

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon December 8, 2015blog

Medical Daily covers our PLOS one paper today: “Social Media Activists, Called ‘Slacktivists,’ Help More Than You Think”.

Media: Vox — Policy & Politics

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon December 8, 2015blog

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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Video: The Critical Periphery of Protest Networks

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon December 7, 2015video

Media: Pacific Standard

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon December 3, 2015blog

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

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon December 1, 2015blog

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

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon October 30, 2015blog

Bruno Gonçalves gave a talk today on his research on online networks. Bruno is a Research Fellow at the NYU Center for Data Science; he was recently awarded the Junior Scientist 2015 by the Complex Systems Society. The title and abstract of his talk are below.

Talk: Big Data and Politics Conference

Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon October 23, 2015blog

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).