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September 12, 2003

current reading list @04:25 PM

books:

Buchanan, Mark, Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks New York: W.W. Norton, 2002.
reviews at amazon

Gladwell, Malcolm, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Boston: Little, Brown, 2000.
reviews at amazon

Kelly, Kevin, Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World. Cambridge: Perseus Books, 1994.
reviews at amazon

Stanley Milgram (edited by John Sabini and Maury Silver). The Individual in a Social World: Essays and Experiments. Second Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992.

articles:

Granovetter, M. (1973), "The Strength of Weak Ties," American Journal of Sociology, 78 (6): 1360-1380.

Barabási, Albert-László, Albert, Réka, "Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks," Science, 15 October (286): 509-512.

Watts, Duncan J., Strogatz, Stephen H., "Collective Dynamics of Small World Networks," Nature, 4 June (393): 440-442.

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Also check out a recent posting by Ross Mayfield about weak ties on on line networks like Friendster:
http://www.socialtext.com/weblog/030912latentties.html

Posted by: sfisher at September 13, 2003 10:31 AM