{"id":28,"date":"2011-02-22T06:29:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T06:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/cck11\/?p=28"},"modified":"2011-02-22T17:25:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T17:25:05","slug":"groups-vs-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/cck11\/2011\/02\/22\/groups-vs-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Groups vs. Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kenkat.wordpress.com\/2011\/02\/21\/cck11-groups-vs-networks\/\">Ken Anderson is puzzled<\/a> by some of Stephen Downes&#8217; ideas on different kinds of social collective. I missed the Feb 18 Elluminate session in cck11 that Ken refers to but I do recall earlier postings from Stephen on what he calls Groups vs Networks and also some comments he made in one of the PLENK2010 sessions regarding the virtues of a &#8220;flat&#8221; network (with all nodes having a similar scale of connectivity) over the power law pattern of a scale-free network in which \u00a0small fractions of the nodes are relatively highly connected. And I recall being puzzled at the time by Stephen&#8217;s preference for &#8220;stability&#8221; of the flatter network over the kind of rapid propagation of change (&#8220;cascade&#8221; phenomena) that is facilitated by the power law distribution of connectivity. I don&#8217;t recall if I spoke up at the time but I was tempted to ask why cascades of new ideas are not to be encouraged and where the line should be drawn between &#8220;stability&#8221; and &#8220;stagnation&#8221;. Any comments here to help with these issues would be welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Anderson is puzzled by some of Stephen Downes&#8217; ideas on different kinds of social collective. I missed the Feb 18 Elluminate session in cck11 that Ken refers to but I do recall earlier postings from Stephen on what he calls Groups vs Networks and also some comments he made in one of the PLENK2010 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,12,10,11],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cck11-2","tag-plenk2010","tag-distributed-vs-distributive","tag-groups","tag-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/cck11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/cck11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/cck11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/cck11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/cck11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/cck11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/cck11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/cck11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/cck11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/cck11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}