Social & Network Theory
These are some core books to get you thinking about network theory and the interplay with social interaction.
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and FreedomThe Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big DifferenceThe Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
The Wealth of Networks: How Social Producti...
by Yochai Benkler
$13.60
Benkler wonderfully explains the shift to peer-production as a way of producing goods. This is important to social design beca...
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Ma...
by Malcolm Gladwell
$8.97
Great stories of how things spread from a social perspective. This books gives a lot of great anecdotes to share with others ...
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business i...
by Chris Anderson
$24.95
Offers excellent insight into the change from physical goods to digital goods. What happens when we can put all of our invento...
Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever BeforeHerd: How to Change Mass Behaviour by Harnessing Our True NatureWikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans ...
by Jean M. Twenge
$10.52
Herd: How to Change Mass Behaviour by Harne...
by Mark Earls
$17.73
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes ...
by Don Tapscott
$19.72
focuses on wikis and expands into network theory
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It MeansThe Wisdom of CrowdsThe Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Ever...
by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
$10.40
a very good overview of network theory in an easily-digestible format
The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki
$10.20
Wonderfully written text on aggregate knowledge. This is especially useful for sites trying to aggregate knowledge across a la...
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
by Barry Schwartz
$10.79
Wonderful book discussing having too many things to choose from and how to help people alleviate the stress of doing so. Good ...
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