Group Processes (eBook)

Andrew Pilny (Ph.D., University of Illinois) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Kentucky. His main research areas concern the development of effective organizing social systems and structures. His research has been applied to nonprofit organizations, social movement groups, work teams, and dark organizations. Andy also specializes in social network analysis.Marshall Scott Poole (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) is the David L. Swanson Professor of Communication, Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, and Director of I-CHASS: The Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of Illinois. He is also a CCSS Fellow in the Organization Science Program at Vrije University in Amsterdam, Netherlands. His research interests include group and organizational communication, information and communication technologies, collaboration, organizational change and innovation, and theory construction.  

Introduction.- Group Processes in the Age of CSS and Big Data.- Group Processes Inputs.- Response Surface Methodology for Nonlinear Factors.- Algorithms for Team Assembly.- Group Processes Dynamics.- Relational Event Analysis for Group Interaction.- Automated Text Mining to Analyze Communication Content.- Social Sequence Analysis Approach for Action Groups.- Group Processes Outputs.- Probablistic Graphical Models to Analyze Causality.- Machine Learning Classification to Understand Group Performance.