Intro to Networks for LUCID

Mike PabianGraduate School of Education

Philosophical Foundations

Identity and Personality

Authenticity and Vulnerability

Conformity and Bystander Intervention

Power and Whistleblowing

How do we move from the individual and group level to larger collectives?

Albert LiauCollege of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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Origamist Extraordinaire

Brian Chan

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“The Food”by Randall Park

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Origamist Extraordinaire

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Randall Park

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David Kong(Kongo Beatbox)

Boston Progress Arts Collective

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Franny Choi

LUCID

Kit Yan(Good Asian Drivers)

Dillan DiGiovanni

Randall Park

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Dillan DiGiovanniLUCID

technology exchange lab

Michael Cera

Brian Chan

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Michael Cera

Brian Chan

David Morimoto

Liv Cummins

Monique Morimoto

Rachel Carbonara

BCNCJen Lin

Degree of Separationhow far away other nodes are

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Rachel Carbonara

Jen Lin

Networks and Epidemics

To figure out how a disease is spreading, look for hubs.

5/1/13 9:21 PMWith Bird Flu, 'Right Now, Anything Is Possible' : Shots - Health News : NPR

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Underscoring the urgency that public health agencies feel about theemergence of a new kind of bird flu, the team is headed by Dr. KeijiFukuda, the World Health Organization's top influenza scientist.

Before he left Geneva, Fukuda explained the wide-open nature of

Weak Ties

Randall Park

Hari Kondabolu

Albert

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Michael Cera

Brian Chan

David Morimoto

Liv Cummins

Monique Morimoto

Rachel Carbonara

BCNCJen Lin

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Hari Kondabolu

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Michael Cera

Brian Chan

David Morimoto

Liv Cummins

Monique Morimoto

Rachel Carbonara

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Weak ties have high value as multipliers of our attention capacity, and as a source of tips for good shopping deals, job possibilities, and dating partners. —Dr. Daniel Goleman

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Information is directional (inbound and outbound ties)

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TermsA Social Network: consists of all the connections and ties within a group or collection of groups

A group is a collection of individuals defined by a common attribute (it need not contain information about connections)

Randall Park

Hari Kondabolu

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Michael Cera

Brian Chan

David Morimoto

Liv Cummins

Monique Morimoto

Rachel Carbonara

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Sociogramswho is connected to whom

Activism Goes OnlineYou might think increased discussion would bring us politically closer but this map of political blogs in America shows otherwise.

Online social networks appear to be strongly homophilous and polarized.

The structure of a network determines its behavior.

David MorimotoCollege of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Ritualized warfare of Baseball?1934: American baseball visits Japan1935: Japanese baseball visits the US

December 7, 1941: Japan bombs Pearl Harbor1954: ‘Jap soldier marries nurse’: Boston

Sunday Post front page, a few years after the US nuked Japan

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‘stay with your self’ (through the widening circles of belonging)

Emergence: a fundamental property of Complex Systems

• System: ‘to hold together’• Whole >> sum of parts (network interactions)• Cells, individuals, ideas, social groups, Homo

sapiens, ecosystems, Earth (Gaia)

Labeling: as fundamental to humans as Tribalism

• Cliques, tribes, teams, religions, cultures…• Emergent identity at the group level

(self-other discrimination)

Collective dynamics of‘small-world’ networksDuncan J. Watts* & Steven H. StrogatzDepartment of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Kimball Hall,Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USANature, 393: 440-442 (1998).

Table 1. Empirical examples of small-world networks Lactual Cactual Film actors 3.65 0.79 Power grid 18.7 0.080 C. elegans 2.65 0.28

SMALL WORLD NETWORKS:• Every node is connected to every other node, but mostly indirectly• Few nodes are highly connected• Low average path length• High clustering (substructure)• Seem to be ubiquitous in nature, a Unifying principle Social systems, brains, power grids!

Terrorist networks, metabolic networks, food webs (ecosystem networks)!

Science publication co-authorship, board memberships, rap musicians!

The Internet!

Why are SWNs ubiquitous?The Nature of disturbance/flow (Uncertainty): It’s similar across scales and systems, like SWNs!! Mass extinctions, earthquakes, fires, stock market crashes, Internet attacks, traffic flow patterns, etc. all exhibit ‘self-organized criticality’ evidenced by power laws. (Many more small than large disturbances or flows)

SWNs (across scales and systems) persist in the face of Uncertainty (across scales and systems): emergent identity, robust to disturbance

Cells (with Metabolic Networks),

Tissues and organs (Neural Networks),

and Individuals in Society (Social Networks)

all emerge and persist(identity) due to Collective SWNDynamics…

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as do the Ecosystems of which we are part (with all of their creatures).

SWN ubiquity across scales and systems reveals a collective Nature,

a larger planetary whole, and aunifying context for our drive to belong,and for our empathy and courage.

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