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Taking a sharper look to different networks, it’s possible to notice a particular feature which is often bound with the concept of “Fluid Hubs” : there are few real and permanent connections between two or more nodes.
Of course the simplest example is provided by our daily experience with the Internet: we know that the majority […]

Is There Still Room for Culture ?

I’m rereading some chapters from various Jeremy Rifkin’s books (in particular “The Age of Access”) and the first thought which came to my mind was about the accent on the potential loss of culture that network society could raise.
A particular emphasis is placed on the difference between economical transactions and cultural events: in an industrial […]

Fluid Hubs

The main feature of scale-free network is the presence of hubs, that are nodes with two peculiarities:

The number of hubs is much smaller than other nodes one, according to a power-law distribution.
The number of links per hub is much greater than normal nodes one.

The Internet is the clearest example of such a network, however in […]

Read-Pile: The Rise Of Network Society

I’m reading it now and my (superficial) opinion is firmly positive. Maybe the only aspect which leaves me a bit buffled is the big number of statistics data positioned inside almost every paragraph… A very small spot in a great context signed by Manuel Castells.
In this very period new concepts like social networking are becoming […]

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