Jan
23
Interesante dialogo entre Barabasi y Fowler acerca de la naturaleza de las redes
JAMES FOWLER: Well, as a social scientist, I’m always asking, “Why do people do stuff?” So for me, what is most amazing about networks is that they completely transform the way we think about data. For a really long time, we’ve thought about individuals as though they were islands — a Robinson Crusoe model of social science. Being able to integrate information — not just about people, but about their relationships — is something that’s completely new.
The physicist and the political scientist discuss contagion and the Obama campaign, debate the natural selection of robustness and ask whether society is turning inward.
