Social Networks Reading

Liz Lawley lists some recommended reading for Social Software. I'm calling it Social Networks reading because I think it bests describes it.

• 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-László Barabási.


• 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.

• The Social Construction of Technological Systems, an excellent collection of essays discussing (among other things) the recursive interrelationships between social contexts and technological tools.