{"id":391,"date":"2012-03-29T13:43:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T20:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rensecorten.dds.nl\/?p=391"},"modified":"2012-03-29T13:43:59","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T20:43:59","slug":"misc-links-march-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/2012\/03\/misc-links-march-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Misc. links, March 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Cambridge University Press launches a new journal called <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displaySpecialPage?pageId=3656\">Network Science<\/a>. 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 &#8220;in general&#8221; but it seems a bit silly to me to build a journal around a paradigm rather than a set of research questions.<\/li>\n<li>Fabio Rojas at Orgtheory <a href=\"http:\/\/orgtheory.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/23\/write-a-paper-with-fabio-schelling-models-with-structural-holes\/\">launches an &#8220;open source&#8221;\u00a0 paper project<\/a>, trying to figure out how &#8220;holes&#8221; in a grid would influence segregation in Schelling&#8217;s model.<\/li>\n<li>This one is a bit old, but still &#8211; the New York Times has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/06\/26\/books\/review\/book-review-everything-is-obvious-once-you-know-the-answer-by-duncan-j-watts.html\">review <\/a>of Duncan Watts&#8217; book &#8220;Everything is Obvious&#8221; by Nicolas Christakis. It is a nice review, although I don&#8217;t quite agree with Christakis that Watts wants to &#8220;debunk methodological individualism.\u201d He uses some micro-macro models to illustrate the unpredictability of social phenomena, I don&#8217;t think that leads him to the conclusion that methodological individualism per se is flawed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,10,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rensecorten.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}