Social contagion is a powerful force.

People copy the thoughts, feelings, & actions of those to whom they are connected. Understanding social network structure & function makes it possible to use social contagion to intervene in the world to improve health, wealth, & learning.

Are you interested in learning about the analysis, modeling, and visualization of networks? Are you into hiking?

Then apply to our summer school #NETHIKE24 (22-27 Sep) by May 3. This year with the fantastic Miranda Lubbers as keynote!

More details on sn.ethz.ch/nethike.html

Save the date: Data Natives is on April 5th!
Since 2015, this is the hub for early-stage researchers in Comp Soc Sci, Net Sci, etc., to meet and co-create a vibrant London&UK community. Join us at City, University of London for a day of informal talks and networking.

📢PUBLICATION ALERT🧵
Our new research in Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media maps the global landscape of political microtargeting across 95 countries during 113 elections. Simon Kruschinski▲@meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social, Mads Hove, Tom Dobber, NHelberger is @[email protected], Claes de Vreese, and I analyze 2.5M FB & IG ads that ran from 2020 to 2022.

“Big platforms are doing limited deals with a few of the biggest, most trusted news sources in a few big companies, including news agencies,” @NicNewman says. “These deals are likely to further exacerbate the inequalities emerging in the wider ecosystem.” fastcompany.com/91116001/finan…

Thrilled and honored to join this distinguished community, and grateful to my mentors, collaborators, and especially my students, who have taught me so much along the way.

It is exciting to see the published version! Very grateful for the chance to collabrate with my awesome coauthors and work at 21st Century China. Hopefully this study can draw more people's attention to the situation of academics under the increasing tension between two superpowers

AI chatbots have infiltrated scientific publishing - with huge ramifications. My latest for Scientific American 'delved' (yes, really) into the data scientificamerican.com/article/chatbo…

The Generative AI in the Newsroom (GAIN) initiative at NU School of Comm Northwestern Medill is looking to hire a postdoc to research, prototype, and evaluate uses of generative AI in news production, with connection to broader ethical, legal, and social implications: postdocs.northwestern.edu/announcements/…

@nupolisci Prof 🇺🇦 [email protected] and Northeastern University London's #BrianBall are spearheading this year's spring conference on London’s campus focusing on the role of the internet in our democracies.
Learn more at news.northeastern.edu/2024/04/22/int…

Winner-takes-most strikes again.

As FT signs licencing deal with Open AI, joining AP, Axel Springer, Le Monde, and Prisa, I think back to how our survey of 300+ digital leaders in news found 35% expected most $$$ from deals would go to big media companies reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/journalism-med…

Every time i watch this it's worse. She tries to appeal to the humanity of cops pushing or kneeling on a student's head and gets her own head thrown to the concrete. Utterly indefensible

Bringing together digital household names like #Meta and #Google , experts and academics will explore the internet’s impact on #democracy during a conference hosted on Northeastern University London's campus.

Read more: bit.ly/4bblfqx

Recently accepted by #QJE , “The Ant and the Grasshopper: Seasonality and the Invention of Agriculture,” by Andrea Matranga (Andrea Matranga 🇺🇦🌻): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

With FOUR DAYS(!) left until the end of early registration, we thought this was a good time to let you know that your ICWSM registration this year includes a trip to Niagara Falls!

Watch the sun set over ...a truly obscene amount of water pouring over a really large cliff.

Long ties accelerate noisy threshold-based contagions

nature.com/articles/s4156…

Happy to see this deserving paper finally land, Dean Eckles!

I'm so tired of being in rooms where people whisper about the absolute ARMY of Big Tech-funded people (most, but not all, ex-Googlers) that have popped up in nearly every corridor in DC where people are working on literally anything to do with AI. So let's talk about it! 1/12

For data scientists and data engineers interested in democracy, please see positions posted Northeastern U. for positions at the Internet Democracy Initiative (pls RT): northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/Bo…

Job just posted, Project coordinator for the Internet Democracy Initiative. Come join us! northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/Bo…

Internet and Society: The Trans-Atlantic Research Future. Coming to London, May 10. Hope you can join us! Northeastern U.