Understanding+Networks+-+a+reading+list


 * "[|Little Boxes, Glocalization, and Networked Individualism]" - Barry Wellman
 * "[|The Social Affordances of the Internet for Networked Individualism]" - Barry Wellman
 * [|The Wealth of Networks] - Yochai Benkler
 * "[|The Hacker Ethic]" - Pekka Himanen
 * "Web of Trust" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust

random notes on the issue of "scale" Scale

Complexity

Emergence

Gall's Law - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall%27s_law

systems theory, post-systems theory

because you can, does it mean you ought Unintended Consequences localisation, resilience, fragility

emergent phenomena exist but are not reducible the phenomenology of "networks"

boundaries, boundary objects (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary_object), dna/code/software

non-dualism, MU (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_%28no_thing%29)

Path depedance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_dependence), encumbants

rhizomes, "mutual aid"

relational order theories - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_order_theories

scale invariance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_invariance)

Introduction to Social Network Analysis - http://faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/nettext/

power laws (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law)