information is all there is, communication is all we need
Sobre os sistemas de geração de riquezas e seus impactos nas relações sociais. Um estudo das estruturas e dinâmicas das redes de relacionamento sociais.
La pregunta clave que anima este trabajo es cúando los individuos modifican sus pautas de comportamiento cambiando consigo la red social en la que actúan. Nos introduce entonces en el concepto de umbral de rebeldía, el número de miembros de mi red que deben estar dispuestos a cambiar su comportamiento para que yo mismo lo cambie.
“El objetivo de este escrito es relativamente sencillo: mostrar, o poner de relieve, diversos aspectos de las redes sociales y la web 2.0 que pueden ser tema de reflexión filosófica. Contrario a lo que pudiera pensarse, la web 2.0 no es un objeto alejado de la filosofía que sólo concierne a ingenieros e informáticos, sino que prácticamente todas las áreas o disciplinas filosóficas tienen algo que decir sobre Internet y las redes Sociales”
“A string of recent breathtaking discoveries has forced us to acknowledge that amazingly simple and far-reaching natural laws govern the structure and the evolution of all the complex networks that surround us.”
SEMANTIC SPACE
Palestra de Pierre Levy em Montreal (2008) sobre ferramentas simbólicas, conversações globais e inteligência coletiva.
“In a review of research conducted in natural social settings, I find evidence of three such biases: over-estimation of own dominance rank, overreporting own social interaction with higher status others, and over-estimation of own centrality in social networks. For each bias, several studies suggest a moderate strength illusion. I offer evolutionary accounts of the adaptive functions of these biases. Most interpretations concern the potential that these illusions stimulate individuals to behave in ways that lead to higher status and cultivation of beneficial social ties.”
Homophily in Social Networks
“Similarity breeds connection. This principle—the homophily principle—structures network ties of every type, including marriage, friendship, work, advice, support, information transfer, exchange, comembership, and other types of relationship. The result is that people’s personal networks are homogeneous with regard to many sociodemographic, behavioral, and intrapersonal characteristics. Homophily limits people’s social worlds in a way that has powerful implications for the information they receive, the attitudes they form, and the interaction they experience.”
The hidden pattern behind everything we do
“If all goes well, by the time you close this book, I will have convinced you that, despite de spontaneity you may exhibit, you are far more predictable than you are willing to admit. This is by no means personal. I am just as easy to forecast as is everybody with whom I live and work. In fact, algorithms built in my lab to discover how predictable we are were tested on millions of individuals and failed only once...”
“Random links between otherwise distant nodes can greatly facilitate the propagation of disease or information, provided contagion can be transmitted by a single active node. However, we show that when the propagation requires simultaneous exposure to multiple sources of activation, called complex propagation, the effect of random links can be just the opposite; it can make the propagation more difficult to achieve”
The Dynamics of Organizations as Adaptive and Evolving Systems
“Organizations are now routinely viewed as dynamic systems of adaptation and evolution that contain multiple parts which interact with one another and the environment. Such a representation is so common that it has acquired the status of a selfevident fact. Yet the profound implications of such a viewpoint for theory and analysis have not been adequately examined or exploited... In this paper we propose that by explicitly recognizing the complex system characteristics of organizations and pursuing their implications, organization theory (OT) can profit from the advances made in the field of CST.”
“Complexity theories are increasingly being seen by academics and practitioners as a way of understanding and changing organizations. The aim of this paper is to review the nature of complexity theories and their importance and implications for organizations and organizational change.”
“Social network structure has often been attributed to two network evolution mechanisms—triadic closure and choice homophily—which are commonly considered independently or with static models. However, empirical studies suggest that their dynamic interplay generates the observed homophily of real-world social networks. By combining these mechanisms in a dynamic model, we confirm the longheld hypothesis that choice homophily and triadic closure cause induced homophily”
“This book surveys a ‘cluster’ of works that seek to explore the cultures of cyberspace, the Internet and the information society. It introduces key ideas, and includes detailed discussion of the work of two key thinkers in this area, Manuel Castells and Donna Haraway, as well as outlining the development of cyberculture studies as a field.”