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      Free online, low cost in print. A good model.
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  • our species might be in for another leap into an entirely different level of complexity and way of life, depending on how we use digital networks to collaborate in new ways and on new levels.
  • In what ways do communication media and practices influence the capability to organize collective action?
  • "Collective action" is the term sociologists, political scientists, and economists use to describe the human capability to organize group activities to produce something that individuals could not produce on their own
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  • The "social dilemma" is another term of art in the social sciences to describe the situations that inevitably arise from the tension between self-interest and collective gain
  • Peter Kollock's words "individual rationality adds up to collective irrationality,"
  • 2010 Nobel laureate in economics, Elinor Ostrom, detailed the ways in which people have worked around or mitigated social dilemmas in order to create institutions for collective action.
  • Robert Axelrod was concerned about the strategic gameplaying involved with thermonuclear strategy during the cold war, and also curious about why cooperation evolved in a competitive Darwinian environment, so he asked people to program cooperation games that computers could play
  • Ostrom, Axelrod, and Kollock could define the foundation for a new interdiscipline of cooperation studies.
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