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Howard Rheingold's videos on Network Literacy are pretty useful (and relate even more directly to our S2 unit of study Network Society).
The size of social networks | Primates on Facebook | The Economist
Story on social networking, grooming v broadcasting and the Dunbar number.
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Robin Dunbar, an anthropologist who now works at Oxford University, concluded that the cognitive power of the brain limits the size of the social network that an individual of any given species can develop. Extrapolating from the brain sizes and social networks of apes, Dr Dunbar suggested that the size of the human brain allows stable networks of about 148. Rounded to 150, this has become famous as “the Dunbar number”.
Huberman Social networks that matter: twitter under the microscope
I think my worry with this argument is that it begins (appropriately enough) by critiquing the empiricist reductionism of seeing network structure as a representation of social networks, but turns to another, equally problematic dataset. It makes an almost moralistic reading of the lack of mutualistic connections between twitter users, inferring a norm that might not actually exist.
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A study of social interactions within Twitter reveals that the driver of usage is a sparse and hidden network of connections underlying the “declared” set of friends and followers.
Howard Rheingold Network Literacy Part Two: Sarnoff, Metcalfe, Reed's Laws
Rheingold 15 minute video on network literacy
This, That and the Other Thing | the human network
If a picture paints a thousand words, you’ve just absorbed a million, the equivalent of one-and-a-half Bibles. That’s the way it is, these days. Nothing is small, nothing discrete, nothing bite-sized. Instead, we get the fire hose, 24 x 7, a world in whic
Google, the new master of network effects - Print Version - International Herald Tribune
Perceptive artricle comparing Microsoft's past dominance with Google's emerging dominance through exploiting network effects
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Google, it seems, is the emerging dominant company in the Internet era, much as Microsoft was in the PC era. The study of networked businesses, market competition and antitrust law is being reconsidered in a new context, shaped by Google. Google's explanation for its large share of the Internet search market more than 60 percent is simply that it is a finely honed learning machine. Its scientists constantly improve the relevance of search results for users and the efficiency of its advertising system for advertisers and publishers.
Latour?s concept - VotApedia - Free Audience Response by Mobile Phone
CSIRO's wiki mobile phone survey tool
Review Essay: Post-ANT Theory
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* Latour, Bruno. War of the Worlds: What About Peace? Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, 2002.
* Law, John. Aircraft Stories: Decentering the Object in Technoscience. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
* Mol, Annemarie. The Bod
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Actor-network theory (or "ANT") is one of the more interesting developments to come out of that interdisciplinary knot that is variously termed “the rhetoric of science,” “the sociology of science,”and “science studies.” Like distributed cognition, ANT is a symmetric approach to understanding experience: it dispenses with Cartesianism by using the same framework, concepts, and vocabularies for both humans and nonhumans. But unlike distributed cognition, ANT is concerned with the political and rhetorical.
Slap in the Facebook: It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up
Wired magazine article on facebook from 2007
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