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Book Review: “Networked: The New Social Operating System” – Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman
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Book Review: “Networked: The New Social Operating System” – Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman

 Having spent considerable time researching in field of Social Network Analysis (SNA), Barry Wellman was well known to me. We have never met face-to-face but I had met up with a number of his Netlab colleagues at a couple of INSA Sunbelt conferences. My first recollection of Wellman’s work goes back to some of his early pre-Internet research on electronically facilitated communications and the social network.  

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Social Physics: Oxymoron or Big 'Social' Data Tipping Point?
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Social Physics: Oxymoron or Big 'Social' Data Tipping Point?

I’ve long been a fan of Sandy Pentland’s work at the MIT media lab. Pentland is perhaps best known for his ‘social tags’ used for monitoring individual human interactions to identify those interaction most associated with productive teams. When his new book “Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread – Lessons from a New Science” coincided with the Easter holiday break, what better way to spend the break than to consume another Pentland tome?

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