This Friday, March 6, join Creative Agency in the Age of AI at Northwestern from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. for a day of panels and conversation on human-AI collaboration. Organized by Duri Long, Noshir Contractor (@noshir.bsky.social), and Karan Ahuja.
More info: www.hci.northwestern.edu/news-events/...
Congrats to NU undergrads Shraeya Iyer, Jeffrey Tu, & Isabel Su presenting at NetSciX (Feb 17–20), supported by @buffett.northwestern.edu scholarship!
Talk: A Multiplex Lens on Influencer Performance, Group Synergy, and Network Centralization
Co-Authors: Megan Chan & @noshir.bsky.social
New in Research Policy with Noshir Contractor (@noshir.bsky.social), Pamela Hinds, Aaron Schecter, and Elisa Mattarelli: Want better ideas in open innovation? It matters who gives you feedback — and who they're connected to.
Check it out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
SIAM News: Diego Gómez-Zará & Noshir Contractor (@noshir.bsky.social)on AI for better, more representative teams.
In MyDreamTeam (380+ participants), creativity was highest when people chose teammates—with representation-aware AI nudges.
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In an in-press study, Leslie DeChurch, Alina Lungeanu, Megan Chan, and @noshir.bsky.social analyze data from NASA space analog teams and Ancient Rome, finding that dyadic shared leadership is uniquely unstable, while solo or 3+ leader structures persist.
Read more: journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5...
New KelloggSchool Insight: Researchers Noshir Contractor (@noshir.bsky.social) & Leslie DeChurch reveal science-based best practices to help NASA crews survive a 3-year Mars mission.
Read more: insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/hous...
We’re excited to share that Dr. Noshir Contractor, former President of the International Communication Association (ICA) will be speaking at the MU–ICA Conference 2025.
📅 MU–ICA Conference on Human & Digital Mutualism
🗓 21–22 November 2025
📍 Mahindra University, Hyderabad
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We’re proud to share that Professor Noshir Contractor (@noshir.bsky.social) delivered a keynote at the 2025 ICA Regional Conference on “Generative AI in Research: Challenges, Opportunities, and Innovations”
Thank you to Mengxiao Zhu and the International Communication Association.
We’re excited to share a new hashtag#CSCW2025 publication co-authored by SONIC’s Director Noshir Contractor (@noshir.bsky.social), alongside Diego Gomez-Zara, Dr. Liz Gerber, Darren Gergle, Kapil Garg, Ph.D. , and Michael Massimi.
Read Here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
SONIC Lab was delighted to welcome back Anup Sawant (2010–2017), a proud SONIC alum and Founder of Pyrack!
We’re grateful to Anup for reconnecting with our community and inspiring the next generation of SONIC researchers!
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Open innovation communities provide valuable opportunities for creators from diverse backgrounds to collaboratively generate and refine new ideas that…
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New research explores how AI-driven optimization, network analysis, and algorithmic fairness techniques can help create higher-performing teams.
Although knowledge workers are increasingly able to adopt remote and hybrid working
arrangements and work productively, many organizations continue to question the effectiveness
of remote work and foc...
