“Early results may indicate that Wikipedia isn’t as communal, egalitarian and free of division of labor as thought. Hierarchies featuring bosses and workers, elites and the not-so-elite, have developed. This may, in fact, be necessary when humans organize to produce something as complex as an encyclopedia, despite the essentially democratic nature of network technologies that… Continue reading Wikipedia social network analysis discovers hierarchies
Month: December 2010
How to find people on Twitter
There are two easy ways to find a person on Twitter, even when the person is not using her/his exact name as a Twitter ID. First, you can use Twiangulate’s “keyword” search for the person’s name. Here are 53 people who are identifying themselves as “Lucy Smith” on Twitter. If this method doesn’t work, try… Continue reading How to find people on Twitter