Social self-organisation?
Heli Nurmi,
Heli connecting ideas,
Feb 24, 2011
I think that research is turning from the question of whether networks or collections of people self-organize (they do) to the question of how they do it, what the resulting organization looks like, and what enables the self-organizing. The picture remains far from clear, even after reading this item, but some patterns are emerging, for example, the 1-9-90 rule describing how a small number of people are responsible for most of the activity, and the suggestion that there is tyically a coordinating person, entity or object. The diagram above is from Kari Hintikka, who wrote about the premises and enablers of self-organisation. Here's a PDF of the full report.
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