Cambridge University Press launches a new journal called Network Science. The editorial board looks impressive, with prominent names from various disciplines that deal with networks, including sociology, economics, physics, and computer science. Still, I wonder if they hope to compete with Social Networks? Maybe not if they want to focus on networks “in general” but it seems a bit silly to me to build a journal around a paradigm rather than a set of research questions.
Fabio Rojas at Orgtheory launches an “open source” paper project, trying to figure out how “holes” in a grid would influence segregation in Schelling’s model.
This one is a bit old, but still – the New York Times has a review of Duncan Watts’ book “Everything is Obvious” by Nicolas Christakis. It is a nice review, although I don’t quite agree with Christakis that Watts wants to “debunk methodological individualism.” He uses some micro-macro models to illustrate the unpredictability of social phenomena, I don’t think that leads him to the conclusion that methodological individualism per se is flawed.