CARE | Future Directions Of Applied Communication Research Lecture Series
The Second Lecture: Leveraging Network Science to Address Grand Societal Challenges by Professor Noshir Contractor | Northwestern University
Future Directions of Applied Communication Research Lecture Series | Lecture 2
Leveraging Network Science to Address Grand Societal Challenges
CARE is excited to bring to you the second lecture in its Future Directions of Applied Communication Lecture Series delivered by Professor Noshir Contractor, Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioural Sciences at Northwestern University.
The lecture is scheduled to take place LIVE on Wednesday, 11th September, 2024 @ 10 AM NZST on Facebook and YouTube
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The lecture explores contemporary and future directions in network science and how it can support applied communication scholarship.
Noted Professor Mohan Dutta, Director of CARE, “Network science offers great possibilities for how we conceptualize the transformative capacity of Communication addressing global grand challenges. As one of world’s leading experts in Social Science Computing, Professor Contractor offers powerful insights into the interplays of technologies, networks and communication in bringing together teams, harnessing creativity, and nurturing communication toward collaborative problem solving. Network science is a critical frontier of applied communication theory, methodology and practice.”
Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the McCormick School of Engineering, the School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He investigates how social and knowledge networks form and perform. He is the former President of the International Communication Association, a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association and a Fellow of the Academy of Management, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Network Science Society, and the International Communication Association.
Additionally, he is the host of a podcast series titled “Untangling the Web,” where he engages in conversations with thought leaders to explore how the Web is shaping society, and how society in turns is shaping the Web. Professor Contractor has been at the forefront of three emerging interdisciplines: network science, computational social science and web science. He is investigating how social and knowledge networks form – and perform – in contexts including business, scientific communities, healthcare and space travel.
His research has been funded continuously for 25 years by the U.S. National Science Foundation with additional funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, NASA, DARPA, Army Research Laboratory and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
His book Theories of Communication Networks (co-authored with Peter Monge) received the 2003 Book of the Year award from the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association and the 2021 Fellows Book Award from the International Communication Association (ICA).
He received the Lifetime Service Award from the Communication, Digital Technology, & Organization Division of the Academy of Management. Additionally, he received the Simmel Award from the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras where he received a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering. He has a Ph.D. from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California.
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