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Gender clustering in friendship networks: some sociological implications
This paper uses a social network approach to examine gender clustering in a complete network of teenagers and their friends. It demonstrates the advantages of using increasingly sophisticated social network techniques, including clustering coefficients and their visualization, and social selection … Continue reading
Rhizomes and Networks Visualization
Inspired by the article “Your choices reveal who you are” of Valdis Krebs in the book Beautiful Visualization, I am collecting the Amazon recommendations for a certain book, until a network of books is created. I did not expected to … Continue reading
Posted in Complex network, Networks, Rhizomes, Visualization
Tagged networks, rhizome, visualization
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Bottlenecks for change
Influential community leaders might hinder transformations in natural resource management. Adaptive governance and the active engagement of resource users at different scales is increasingly considered to be crucial for changes in the governance of ecosystems services. However, there are also … Continue reading
Tribes, Institutions, Markets, Networks – A framework about Societal Evolution
What forms account for the organization of societies? How have people organized their societies across the ages? The answer may be reduced to four basic forms of organization: the kinship-based tribe, as denoted by the structure of extended families, clans, … Continue reading
Posted in Civil society, Hierarchy, Market, Networks, Society
Tagged civil society, hierarchy, market, networks, society, tribes
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The Open Collaboration Encyclopedia
The original and comprehensive open-sourced encyclopedia of collaborative models and networks. Filled with everything you every would need to know about the emerging open, non-hierarchical, participatory open collaboration paradigm – facilitation methodologies, community building strategies, collaborative principles, project management techniques, … Continue reading
Posted in Collaboration, Networks, Social network
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Organizing for diversity and complexity
Read How do you maintain the integrity of the organization while embracing the chaos beyond? Part of the answer is in supporting communities of practice as a bridge between external networks and those doing the work.
Posted in Complexity, Networks, Organizational change, Organizing
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Twenty reasons why it’s kicking off in cyberspace
Read Read also: The Youth Crisis – Twenty reasons why it’s kicking off everywhere In February the Newsnight economics editor Paul Mason very succinctly laid out the radically different nature of recent popular uprisings across North Africa, the Middle East … Continue reading
Promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks – a conceptual framework
Read This publication is about value creation in communities and networks. It is a foundation paper presenting a framework for promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks and aims to be sufficiently rigorous for researchers, useful for practitioners … Continue reading
Posted in Community, CoP, Learning, Learning communities, Learning network, Network of practice, Networks
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Networks and Social Innovation for Resilient Systems
Complex challenges demand complex solutions. By their very nature, these problems are difficult to define and are often the result of rigid social structures that effectively act as “traps”. However, resilience theory and the adaptive cycle can serve as a … Continue reading
Posted in Interdisciplinarity, Interdisciplinary research, Networks, Resilience, Social change, Social innovation
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Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World
Read Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex connectedness of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet, in the ease with which global communication … Continue reading
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