Networked Collaboration

Sebastian Thrun on MOOCs

Coursera is a that exactly. I am even taking a similar class to our own right now. https://class.coursera.org/sna-2012-001/class/index

I heard this on NPR as I was driving and couldn't help but think of this week's reading from Smart Mobs. The text discusses the role that cooperation plays in human society, that if we were designed to spread out genes without regard to others, that cooperation would have been "bred out" generations ago. This story shows that cooperation, or at least social interaction based on valuing the needs and goals of others, does seem to be uniquely human. Networked collaboration isn't the result of technology - it's the result of basic humanity.

great from Ted Hope, a leading advocate for changing film production and distribution culture. Good thoughts for media makers who want to enter into a broader networked production

An oldie but goodie (via @yeleazy). On the importance of play: "The opposite of play isn't work, it's depression." #PlayLeadsToProgression

Thanks for this article, Cody! Makes me feel more conscious about my tweets, which is never a bad thing, right? I'm definitely not addicted to twitter just yet but as the semester progresses so does my dependency to tweet and not just because of the assignment but because I feel like I should have a reputable social presence on the web, especially as a media studies student.

NetLogo is a multi-agent programmable modeling environment. It is used by tens of thousands of students, teachers and researchers worldwide. It also powers HubNet participatory simulations. It is authored by Uri Wilensky and developed at the CCL. You can download it free of charge.

NetworkX is a Python language software package for the creation, manipulation, and study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks.

LiveJournal is a vibrant global social media platform where users share common passions and interests. With hundreds of communities built around popular interests, like entertainment, celebrity gossip, music, food, travel, fashion, parenting, pets, and more, LiveJournal users express themselves through creative journaling and lively commentary.

NodeXL is a free, open-source template for Microsoft® Excel® 2007 and 2010 that makes it easy to explore network graphs. With NodeXL, you can enter a network edge list in a worksheet, click a button and see your graph, all in the familiar environment of the Excel window.

UCINET for Windows: Software Package for the Social Network A nalysis

Slides from NICTA workshop , Sydney, Australia, June 14-17, 2005. Slides from workshop at GD'05 , Limerick, Ireland, Sept 11-14, 2005.Pajek workshop atXXVIII Sunbelt Conference , St. Pete Beach, Florida, USA, January 22-27, 2008: slides. Network analysis course at ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques , Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 30 - August 16, 2008.

igraph is a free software package for creating and manipulating undirected and directed graphs. It includes implementations for classic graph theory problems like minimum spanning trees and network flow, and also implements algorithms for some recent network analysis methods, like community structure search.

Gephi 0.8.1-beta has been released! Discover a new Timeline, dynamic ranking and weighted community detection. Learn More " Applications Exploratory Data Analysis: intuition-oriented analysis by networks manipulations in real time. Link Analysis: revealing the underlying structures of associations between objects, in particular in scale-free networks.

Sixty million people are expected to tune in on Wednesday night to watch the first presidential debate of this election season. While the debates themselves may not determine the outcome of an election, the voters watching them do.

These papers describe basic features of the data and how it was retrieved and processed. Because it is a very large data set there will inevitably be some mistakes in it. I do my best to continue improving the data--if you find mistakes please let me know and I will fix them.

The Computational Legal Studies Blog was founded on March 17, 2009. The CLS Blog is an attempt to disseminate legal or law related studies that employ a computational or complex systems component. We hope this venue will serve as a coordinating device for those interested in using such techniques to consider the development of legal systems and/or implementation of more reasoned public policy.