Social software reading list

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-Lszl Barabsi.

* 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.

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