Social software reading list

December 23, 2004

Liz’s recommendation: mamamusings: social software reading list:

* Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software, by Steven Johnson.

* Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, by Duncan Watts.

* Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, by Howard Rheingold.

* Linked: The New Science of Networks, by Albert-L�szl� Barab�si.

* Small Pieces Loosely Joined, by David Weinberger.

* “The Strength of Weak Ties,” by Mark Granovetter [from the American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 78, No. 6. (May, 1973), pp. 1360-1380.] RIT faculty can retrieve a PDF of this article by going to the JSTOR database via the RIT library, and searching for author=Granovetter and title=weak ties in the Sociology journals.

Some of the feedback suggestions are also interesting.

Connected Nodes:

  1. You Don’t Know Me, but… Social Capital & Social Software
  2. Social Software reader
  3. GBN’s conversation with Clay Shirky
  4. New Approach on Science of Networks
  5. Flip Side of Complex System
  6. Danah’s papers
  7. Collaborative knowledge gardening
  8. Clay Shirky: Flickr-as-web-services edition
  9. How Do You Use del.icio.us?
  10. 社群的尺度