Inquiry and learning into social networks, organizational network analysis, and the relationships among people and systems in complex organizations and networks.
| Networks, Complexity, and Relatedness Inquiry and learning into social networks, organizational network analysis, and the relationships among people and systems in complex organizations and networks. |
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Wednesday, March 05, 2003 "There is definitely something in the air,about networks," John Clippinger said to me when we ran into each other at Albert Laszlo Barabasi's talk at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government's Colloquium on Social Networks and Complexity. Barabasi's talk on the architecture of networks makes the very clear case that there are underlying laws of physics that apply to the topology and growth of networks. Despite all the mathematics (which I neither pretend nor aspire to understand), it was great fun, and good reinforcement for my learning. He's also a very witty speaker! Barabasi's book, Linked: The New Science of Networks, brings all the research in microbiology, physics, sociology, economics and the internet and WWW together. He and his associates have proved that the world wide web has a diameter of 19 degrees, and in the process of studying it came to understand a number of other "laws" of networks, including "the rich get richer."
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