Earlier this week the Dutch queen Beatrix announced that she will soon step down in favor of her son, who will then be king. In the media storm that followed, I was…
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PLoS ONE now officially does social science
The on-line open access journal PLoS ONE (claimed to be the largest in the world), seems to attract more and more social scientists, perhaps lured (like me) by its promise of fast…
Organized anarchy
This is what the notoriously disorganized Burning Man festival looks like from space. Pretty organized, actually. Picture by DigitalGlobe, via news.discovery.com.
New year, new address(es)
Recently, I decided that it was time for this blog to have a “real” web address, so as of last month, it lives at www.rensecorten.org. The old address will still work, but…
The structure and dynamics of the global network of inter-firm R&D partnerships 1989–2002
I am pleased to announce that my paper with Michał Bojanowski and Bastian Westbrock titled “The structure and dynamics of the global network of inter-firm R&D partnerships 1989–2002” was just published by …
Misc. links, September 2012
The harvest of interesting internet offerings of last month: Social media strike again: an invitation to a birthday party of a 16-year old girl, accidentally(?) made public on Facebook, draws thousands to…
Equilibrium Selection in Network Coordination Games
My paper with Vincenz Frey and Vincent Busken titled “Equilibrium Selection in Network Coordination Games: An Experimental Study” was recently published by the Review of Network Economics. Here’s the abstract: We experimentally…
Kanttekeningen bij “De kloof is wit”
In het artikel “De kloof is wit” in De Volkskrant van 1 september 2012 boren journalisten Martin Sommer en Tjerk Gualthérie, samen met socioloog Jaap Dronkers en geograaf Josse de Voogd een…
Duncan Watts on common sense
I recently discovered this video of a TEDx talk by Duncan Watts, my favorite physicist-turned-sociologist, in which he nicely and effectively summarizes the main points of his latest book, Everything is Obvious…
Headscarves and signaling theory
The latest issue of Rationality and Society has a nice paper by David Patel on the increased popularity of ‘fundamentalist’ Islamic clothing styles such as the full-face veil or niqab. According to…