Trolls and Cyberbullying

About ComfortablySmug and Hurricane Sandy

Unmasking Violentacrez

Anonymous Outs Amanda Todd's Cyberbully

On Internet Vigilantism

On Slut Walks

Mutlitasking

Here is an interesting test of multitasking ability. 


And here is the video we watched with the basketball passes.

Dunbar's number

Here's the article about the guy who tried to prove he could have more friends than Dunbar's number.

And here's a video by Dunbar talking about the idea.

Clay Shirky: Institutions vs Collaboration

Watch this video by Clay Shirky about how 'wise crowds' can capture value better than traditional organizations.

Here's a short video explaining the wisdom of crowds as well.


Also, here's author James Surowiecki talking about the ideas in his book.
http://blip.tv/orton-family-foundation/james-surowiecki-on-the-wisdom-of-crowds-584104

The Hidden Influence of Social Networks

• What is the widower effect?
• What did they discover when studying the obesity epidemic?
• What are the three main factors that lead to clusters of similarities? 
• What is an ‘emotional contagion’?
• What is transitivity?
• What determines 47% of the number of friends you have?
• What plays an important role in determining whether your friends know each other?
• How are carbon atom structures similar to human networks?
• What is a super-organism? What are some examples?
• What does Christakis think determines our experience of the world?
• What does he think that the world today needs more social networks?

http://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_christakis_the_hidden_influence_of_social_networks.html

Network Graph

Day 1 - Vocab

Social network: a patterned set of relationships between two or more actors

actor, node, vertex: an entity in a relationship

social capital:  the resources—such as ideas, information, money, trust—available in and through personal and business networks

network tie: the connection or relationship between actors

density:  reflects how many people in a network are connected (usually directly) to each other

network size: the number of nodes

direct tie: 2 nodes connected by  1 line

indirect tie: two nodes connected by 2 or more lines

dyad: 2 actors connected by a tie

triad: 3 actors connected by 2 or 3 ties

activity:how participative a node is

influence: the potential to affect nodes

social network analysis:  the mapping and measuring of relationships and flows between people, groups, organizations, computers, Web sites, and other information/knowledge processing entities.