{"id":778,"date":"2012-01-19T12:02:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T12:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk\/?p=778"},"modified":"2012-01-21T10:34:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T10:34:44","slug":"roundtable-followup-19-1-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syslog.cl.cam.ac.uk\/2012\/01\/19\/roundtable-followup-19-1-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"roundtable followup, 19.1.2012"},"content":{"rendered":"
we had a roundtable followup to the social nets discussion day -my 4 cents were<\/p>\n
1. why don't we build more things to test our theorie?<\/p>\n
2 . these things might be new socieities...e.g. fit-for-purpose replacements for socialism and free market capitalism<\/p>\n
(cyber-anarcho-syndicalism)?<\/p>\n
3. how about we have a new way to do inter-disciplinary research in this area, using social networks to do the research???<\/p>\n
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People need to read more - for example, when I look at The Rational OPtimist, by Matt Ridley, I discover that he seems completely unaware of the work by Marcel Mauss nearly 100 years ago on The Gift, which covers all the ideas Ridley thinks he's made up about exchange! I discover that people don't know the work by Mancur Olsen on the Logic of Collective Action from 50 years ago. Even people who've heard of Dunbar's number, don't read Gossip, Grooming and the Evolution of Language.<\/p>\n
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More essential readings<\/p>\n
Michael Kearns work on Graphs&Games<\/p>\n