Networks have become a powerful metaphor to
explain the social realities of our times.
Everywhere we look there are attempts to explain
all kinds of social formations in terms of
networks: citizen networks, corporate networks,
gamer networks, terrorist networks, learning
networks⦠and so on. Information and
communication technologiesin particcular the
internetand the structures they enable have
greatly influuenced how we imagine the social.
It's similar to what happened in cognitive
science when the computer was taken as the
favored metaphor for explaining how the brain
works, except that now we are attempting to explain how the social works.
But is there something anti-social about
imagining and organizing our social realities in terms of networks?
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