Weak Ties, Twitter and Revolution | Wired Science | Wired.com

Responding to Malcolm Gladwell's recent piece in the New Yorker, Jonah Lehrer argues that the strength of weak ties *does* extend to social activism.

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Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker

A well-argued piece by Malcolm Gladwell on the relative pros and cons of weak-tie networks and strong-tie hierarchies ...although, as always, Gladwell relies on anecdotes more than data to make his point.

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Is Happiness Catching? - NYTimes.com

An examination of behavioural contagion in social networks.

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Social networks may be imaginary | The Register

My new motto is "The Social Graph is a Spherical Cow."

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