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James Currier • Status, Wealth, & Power: Network Effects Demand A New Social Contract
relationships were structured into a series of inclusive circles, or layers,* with each layer three times the size of the layer immediately inside it.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Groups over roles. Instead of assigning powers to particular users, Modpol assigns powers to orgs.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Clay Shirky • Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
there was a steady linear decline in network size (in this case, indexed by the number of friends on Facebook) from around 250 in eighteen- to twenty-four-year-olds to seventy-three in the fifty-five-plus age group,
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
the integrity or cohesiveness of the network may depend not on everyone liking everyone else but simply on some individuals forming links (known as bridges) between adjacent triads – in other words, two triads are linked together to form a network because one member of each triad like each other,
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
Francis Fukuyama • The Origins of Political Order
A related network, the Campbell Collaboration, aims to do the same thing for social policy questions in areas such as education and criminal justice.