Social Networking and Theory
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Open source social networking alternatives have no shortage of passion and enthusiasm. There is an overwhelming interest in building open alternatives to the walled gardens we currently inhabit, and a strong belief in the necessity and superiority of freedom and decentralization over corporate, centralized control. And yet a viable alternative has not emerged. While the world holds their breath for a challenger, most of the world still socializes on a closed off section of the internet which sees it's users as products, not as digital citizens worthy of a basic respect.
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A social network is a social structure made up of a set of actors (such as individuals or organizations) and the dyadic ties between these actors (such as relationships, connections, or interactions). A social network perspective is employed to model the structure of a social group, how this structure influences other variables, or how structures change over time. [ 1 ] The study of these structures uses methods in social network analysis to identify influential nodes, local and global structures, and network dynamics. Social networks are distinct from information , biological , or electrical networks , but theories and methods generalizing to all of these complex networks are studied in the field of network science . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Social networks and the analysis of them is an inherently interdisciplinary academic field which emerged from social psychology , sociology , statistics , and graph theory .
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Social Network Theory
Baym, N.K. 1995. The emergence of community in computer-mediated communication. In Cybersociety: Computer-Mediated Communication and Community, ed. S.G. Jones, pp. 138-163.
New ‘OpenID Connect’ Proposal Could Solve Many of the Social Web
David Recordon, one of the key architects of OpenID and other identity technologies that have emerged over the past five years, has envisioned a new direction for OpenID. His proposal, which was drafted with input from several people in the OpenID community, is called OpenID Connect . At the highest level, it essentially rebuilds OpenID on top of OAuth 2.0, combining the two popular open source systems for authenticating users and letting them share data with social websites and applications. “OpenID Connect is an attempt to pull the best pieces of two separate technologies together, to create a single technology stack that’s simpler for everyone to use,” Recordon tells Webmonkey.