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- May 16, 2011
- 02:15 PM
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The number of my online friends and Dunbar’s not-so-hidden scientific agenda
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Neocortex matters more than social enhancements à la Facebook, says Robin "Dunbar's number" Dunbar in a recent article. Will these results get him a Nobel Prize?... Read more »
Pollet, T., Roberts, S., & Dunbar, R. (2011) Use of Social Network Sites and Instant Messaging Does Not Lead to Increased Offline Social Network Size, or to Emotionally Closer Relationships with Offline Network Members. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 14(4), 253-258. DOI: 10.1089/cyber.2010.0161
- April 30, 2011
- 05:53 AM
- 1,129 views
Avatar activism and the « survival of the mediated » hypothesis
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By now, you're all way too familiar with the Egyptian Facebook activism. And everybody and his sister has spent the last year-and-a-half discussing how wrong was Malcolm Gladwell in dismissing Moldovan Twitter activism. And millions of you have smiled at Gaddafi's crazy rant against Tunisian Wikileaks activism. But I'm sure the notion of Avatar activism appeals to a more restricted audience.... Read more »
Mark Deuze. (2010) Survival of the mediated. Journal of Cultural Science, 3(2). info:/
- April 3, 2011
- 07:22 AM
- 558 views
What is medicine all about? Staring at screens
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Recently, the New York Times’s blog dealing with health and medicine, Well, featured an interesting piece on Desktop medicine. The author Pauline W. Chen, M.D., maintains that medical profession has been profoundly changed by the advent of desktop computers. In the past, doctoring was all about « sitting at patients’ bedside ». Today, it’s basically about staring [...]... Read more »
Raphaël Lellouche. (1997) Théorie de l’Ecran. Tr@verses, 2(1). info:other/
- December 29, 2010
- 04:44 AM
- 1,768 views
What’s the actual size of your personal social network? Some numbers
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In 1992 Robin Dunbar proposed a rough estimate of 150. But the "Dunbar's number" pretty much doubled in 1998, when Peter Killworth suggested a mean personal network size of 290. And in 2010 that number doubled again, as Matthew Salganik came up with 610 personal. So who says 1,200?... Read more »
Bickart, K., Wright, C., Dautoff, R., Dickerson, B., & Barrett, L. (2010) Amygdala volume and social network size in humans. Nature Neuroscience. DOI: 10.1038/nn.2724
Dunbar, R. (1992) Neocortex size as a constraint on group size in primates. Journal of Human Evolution, 22(6), 469-493. DOI: 10.1016/0047-2484(92)90081-J
Killworth, P., Johnsen, E., Bernard, H. R., Shelley, G., & McCarty, C. (1990) Estimating the size of personal networks. Social Networks, 12(4), 289-312. DOI: 10.1016/0378-8733(90)90012-X
McCormick, T., Salganik, M., & Zheng, T. (2010) How Many People Do You Know?: Efficiently Estimating Personal Network Size. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 105(489), 59-70. DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.ap08518
- December 21, 2010
- 03:29 AM
- 686 views
My article « A History of Virulence » finally published in Body and Society
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Sage journal Body and Society vol 16, n. 4 is finally out! Pardon my enthusiasm, but this issue features my 30-page essay A History of Virulence: The Body and Computer Culture in the 1980s: a killer mix of hackerdom, virality and computer nostalgia that also happens to be IMHO one hell of a contribution to [...]... Read more »
Casilli, Antonio A. (2010) A History of Virulence: The Body and Computer Culture in the 1980s. Body , 16(4), 1-31. DOI: 10.1177/1357034X10383880
- December 15, 2010
- 02:07 PM
- 505 views
Sociologie en boîte vs. analyse des réseaux sociaux
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PDF de mon article "'Petites boîtes' et individualisme en réseau. Les usages socialisants du Web en débat", tout juste paru dans Les Annales des Mines, série Réalités Industrielles (novembre 2010).... Read more »
Antonio A. Casilli. (2010) "'Petites boîtes' et individualisme en réseau. Les usages socialisants du Web en débat". Annales des Mines (série "Réalités Industrielles"), 216(4), 54-59. info:/
- July 17, 2010
- 07:40 AM
- 622 views
Running experiments on Twitter? Don’t forget the bug
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There's nothing that error analysis wouldn't fix. But I prefer to sit here and ponder the epistemological ramifications of the way bugs are impacting the traditional way we make science...... Read more »
Scott A. Golder and Sarita Yardi. (2010) Structural Predictors of Tie Formation in Twitter: Transitivity and Mutuality. Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Social Computing. August 20-22, Minneapolis, MN. info:/
- May 1, 2010
- 06:33 AM
- 1,916 views
« An Ethnographic Seduction »: our article published on the Bulletin of Sociological Methodology
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So here it is, our little « manifesto for qualitative agent-based simulation » is finally out on the now Sage-published Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique. It is just worth stressing the importance of this article in our present research: our effort has been to really provide a comprehensive framework for underdestanding what it means to [...]... Read more »
Tubaro, P., & Casilli, A. A. (2010) ''An Ethnographic Seduction'': How Qualitative Research and Agent-based Models can Benefit Each Other. Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, 106(1), 59-74. DOI: 10.1177/0759106309360111
- March 17, 2010
- 04:47 AM
- 1,022 views
Entre « effets de petit monde » et émiettement communautaire: la légitimation culturelle à l’heure de Facebook
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par Antonio A. CASILLI (Centre Edgar-Morin, EHESS) [1]
Le texte qui suit a été présenté aux Journées d’études Les réseaux sociaux: Quoi de neuf ?, qui ont eu lieu à l’université de Toulouse II-Le Mirail, 16-17 mars 2010, dans le cadre des activités du Réseau Thématique 26 de l’Association Française de Sociologie.
La communication (ici en [...]... Read more »
Antonio A. Casilli . (2010) Légitimation intersubjective de la présence en ligne et formation de réseaux sociaux : Une approche ethno-computationnelle. II Journées d'études du RT 26 (Réseaux sociaux) de l'Association Française de Sociologie "Les réseaux sociaux: quoi de neuf ?", 16-17 mars, Université de Toulouse II - Le Mirail. info:/
- March 7, 2010
- 11:01 AM
- 908 views
The sociology of Chatroulette
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by Antonio A. Casilli (Centre Edgar-Morin, Paris) [1]
By now, you might have heard about Chatroulette, if you are hip and tech-savvy if those two things at the sides of your face are your ears. By the way, I hope you did not click on the link. It’s not safe for work. And by that I [...]... Read more »
Peter M. Todd. (1997) Searching for the next best mate. In R. Conte, R. Hegselmann, and P. Terna (Eds.) Simulating social phenomena, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 419-436. info:/
- December 20, 2009
- 04:46 PM
- 987 views
« How come it’s BLUE? » The origins of James Cameron’s Avatar
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Superheroes, virtual worlds and hindu gods: a visual genealogy of James Cameron's Avatar - based on my article "Les Avatars Bleus" (Communications, 2005). For those who don't speak French. Also, for those who simply can't be bothered to go through 30 pages of socio-babbling ;) ... Read more »
Antonio A. Casilli. (2005) [Blue Avatars, about three strategies of cultural borrowing at the heart of computer culture] Les avatars bleus, Autour de trois stratégies d’emprunt culturel au cœur de la cyberculture. Communications, 77(1), 183-209. info:/
- November 2, 2009
- 02:30 AM
- 966 views
Love – the Swiss way: sociologists want to “optimize the marriage market” (eng)
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The current state of marriages is well below the social optimum, Swiss sociologists say. So they come up with a mathematical model to "reallocate partners" more efficiently via a shadowy "central agency". Next thing you know, divorces are reduced by 21%, mixed couples become illegal and right-wing nuts triumph...... Read more »
Cao, N., Fragnière, E., Gauthier, J., Sapin, M., & Widmer, E. (2010) Optimizing the marriage market: An application of the linear assignment model. European Journal of Operational Research, 202(2), 547-553. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2009.06.009
- July 8, 2009
- 02:51 AM
- 1,159 views
A crazy idea everybody’s having: using Wikipedia for health information (eng)
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Laurent, M., & Vickers, T. (2009). Seeking Health Information Online: Does Wikipedia Matter? Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 16 (4), 471-479 DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M3059
Back in the day, patients used to show up at doctors’ practices with a set of symptoms. Since the advent of the Internet, though, they show up with a set of [...]... Read more »
Laurent, M., & Vickers, T. (2009) Seeking Health Information Online: Does Wikipedia Matter?. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 16(4), 471-479. DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M3059
- June 27, 2009
- 01:33 PM
- 1,474 views
Internet use among the poor: it’s not funny and it doesn’t mitigate inequalities (eng)
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Robinson, L. (2009). A taste for the necessary. A Bourdieuian approach to digital inequality Information, Communication & Society, 12 (4), 488-507 DOI: 10.1080/13691180902857678
The “Diversity” issue of the journal Information, Communication and Society is out and it’s entirely devoted to the Communication and Information Technologies section of the American Sociological Association (CITASA). Laura Robinson’s remarkable article explores digital inequality among ........ Read more »
Robinson, L. (2009) A taste for the necessary. A Bourdieuian approach to digital inequality. Information, Communication , 12(4), 488-507. DOI: 10.1080/13691180902857678
- June 11, 2009
- 02:50 AM
- 1,318 views
New paper shows social connectivity is not declining (not because of Internet, anyway) (eng)
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Hua (Helen) Wang, & Barry Wellman (2009). Social Connectivity in America. Changes in Adult Friendship Network Size from 2002 to 2007 American Behavioral Scientist
The story so far, can be summarized as follows: since the beginning of the Web, a significant amount of researches has being focusing on the inverse correlation between online connectivity and [...]... Read more »
Hua (Helen) Wang, & Barry Wellman. (2009) Social Connectivity in America. Changes in Adult Friendship Network Size from 2002 to 2007. American Behavioral Scientist. DOI: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/social-connectivity/social-connectivity.pdf
- May 4, 2009
- 01:27 AM
- 4,015 views
How to avoid common mistakes in agent-based model visualization (eng)
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Pretty interesting article just published in JASSS. If you happen to be involved in agent-based simulation design, you know how bad your model can be screwed up by poor visualization. Here are some guidelines you might find useful.
Visualizations are not only important for communicating your results to an audience (wether it is made of fellow-scientists [...]... Read more »
Kornhauser, Daniel and Wilensky, Uri and Rand, William. (2009) Design Guidelines for Agent Based Model Visualization. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 12(2). DOI: http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/12/2/1.html
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