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How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet (Information Policy)

by Benjamin Peters  · 2 Jun 2016  · 518pp  · 107,836 words

, 1955), 229. 49. Gregory, Restructuring the Soviet Economic Bureaucracy, 173. On the sticking power of informal relations in other socially networked economies, see Mark Granovetter, “The Strength of Weak Ties,” American Journal of Sociology 78 (6) (1973): 1360–1380. 50. Gertrude Schroeder, “The Soviet Economy on a Treadmill of Reforms,” Soviet Economy in a Time

, 2003. Granick, David. Management of the Industrial Firm in the USSR: A Study in Soviet Economic Planning. New York: Columbia University Press, 1955. Granovetter, Mark. “The Strength of Weak Ties.” American Journal of Sociology 78 (6) (1973): 1360–1380. Greenhalgh, Susan. “Missile Science, Population Science: The Origins of China’s One-Child Policy.” China Quarterly

Howard Rheingold

by The Virtual Community Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier-Perseus Books (1993)  · 26 Apr 2012

, A.J., L. Groarke, and J. Kohls. "Open Peer Commentaries on Virtuality, Conversation, and Morality." Technology Studies 3, no. 2 (1996): 215-226. Granovetter, Mark. "The Strength of Weak Ties." American Journal of Sociology 78, no. 6 (1973): 1360-1380. Gregson, K. "Conversation and Community or Sequential Monologues: An Analysis of Politically Oriented Newsgroups." Proceedings

Cities: The First 6,000 Years

by Monica L. Smith  · 31 Mar 2019  · 304pp  · 85,291 words

Archaeology, eds. Anna Marie Prentiss, Ian Kuijt, and James C. Chatters (New York: Springer, 2009), 51–71. Mark Granovetter coined a term: Mark S. Granovetter, “The Strength of Weak Ties,” American Journal of Sociology 78, no. 6 (1973): 1360–80. Our species’ first real social: Marek Kohn and Steven Mithen, “Handaxes: Products of Sexual Selection

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

by Robert D. Putnam  · 10 Mar 2015  · 459pp  · 123,220 words

/data/datasets/social_capital_community_survey.html. See also Campbell, Marsden, and Hurlbert, “Social Resources and Socioeconomic Status,” 97–117. 11. See Mark S. Granovetter, “The Strength of Weak Ties,” American Journal of Sociology 78 (May 1973): 1360–80; Mark Granovetter, Getting a Job: A Study of Contacts and Careers (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1974

Designing Social Interfaces

by Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone  · 30 Sep 2009  · 518pp  · 49,555 words

Connected Age, by Duncan J. Watts, W.W. Norton and Co., 2004 Social Network Analysis: A Handbook, by John P. Scott, Sage Publications Ltd., 2000 The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited, by Mark Granovetter, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1983, http://www.si.umich.edu/~rfrost/courses/ SI110/readings/In

Elsewhere, U.S.A: How We Got From the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms,and Economic Anxiety

by Dalton Conley  · 27 Dec 2008  · 204pp  · 67,922 words

, Mark Granovetter, gave us the second ethic of the network society in an article that would become a classic in social science and beyond. In “The Strength of Weak Ties,” Granovetter argued that, ironically, it is often relatively weak ties— connections to folks you don’t know all that well and that are not reinforced

by other indirect pathways—that turn out to be quite valuable because they bring new information. The strength of weak ties has been found to be especially useful for job (and romantic) searches. In a densely connected network, all the individuals probably know the same people

: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004), pp. 729-68. 3. Stanley Milgram, “The Small World Problem,” Psychology Today, May 1967, pp. 60-67. 4. Mark S. Granovetter, “The Strength of Weak Ties,” American Journal of Sociology 78, no. 6 (May 1973): 1360-80. 5. Damon Centola, Robb Willer, and Michael Macy “The Emperor’s Dilemma: A Computational

From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism

by Fred Turner  · 31 Aug 2006  · 339pp  · 57,031 words

of Post-Industrial Society, 478, 480. 10. The classic statement of the power of loose connections to shape employment opportunities can be found in Granovetter, “The Strength of Weak Ties.” 11. Inventors and designers have often played an entrepreneurial role in this regard. Bernard Carlson, for example, following Donald MacKenzie, has suggested that “inventors invent

Left.” In A Companion to Post-1945 America, edited by Jean-Christophe Agnew and Roy Rosenzweig, 277–302. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. Granovetter, Mark S. “The Strength of Weak Ties.” American Journal of Sociology 78, no. 6 (1973): 1360 – 80. Gravy, Wavy. The Hog Farm and Friends. New York: Links Books, 1974. Grossberg, Lawrence. “On

Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences

by Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star  · 25 Aug 2000  · 357pp  · 125,142 words

of the Savage Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Goody, Jack. 1987. The Interface Between the Written and the Oral. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Granovetter, M. ” The Strength of Weak Ties”. American Sociological Review 70: 1360-1380. Graunt, John. 1662. Natural and Political Observations Mentioned in a Following Index and Made upon the Bills of Mortality

Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia

by Dariusz Jemielniak  · 13 May 2014  · 312pp  · 93,504 words

. American Journal of Sociology, 91(3), 481–510. R e f e r e n c e s    2 5 3 Granovetter, M. S. (1973). The strength of weak ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78(6), 1360–1380. Grant, R. M. (2010). Contemporary strategy analysis. New York: Wiley. Green, M. C., & Carpenter, J. M. (2011

The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion

by John Hagel Iii and John Seely Brown  · 12 Apr 2010  · 319pp  · 89,477 words

, and Lang Davison, The 2009 Shift Index: Measuring the Forces of Long-Term Change (San Jose, Calif.: Deloitte Development, June 2009). 5 See Mark Granovetter, “The Strength of Weak Ties,” American Journal of Sociology 78, no. 6 (May 1973). 6 See Vanina Leschziner, “Kitchen Stories: Patterns of Recognition in Contemporary High Cuisine,” Sociological Forum 22

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