The power law of information : life in a connected world /

We live in an era of unparalleled access to information and communication technologies. The Internet and other information tools like the television are becoming ever more central to our lives-we chat, blog, e-mail and e-shop, leaving behind our footprints in this version of public space. In additio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Srinivasa, Srinath, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : Response Books, a division of Sage Pub., 2006.
Temas:
Information society.
Social change.
Société informatisée.
COMPUTERS > Information Technology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Information and the power law
  • 1.1 The information age
  • 1.2 Properties of information
  • 1.3 Non-linear "frictionless" systems
  • Non-linear frictionless systems
  • 2.1 Thinking in circles
  • 2.2 Sensitivity to initial conditions
  • 2.3 Bifurcations
  • 2.4 Self-similarity
  • Information and rationality
  • 3.1 Rational choice and ignorance
  • 3.2 Information-related fallacies
  • 3.3 Prisoner's dilemma and stable strategies
  • 3.4 Evolutionary models of ideas
  • 3.5 Satisficing behaviour
  • 3.6 Conformance and cartels
  • 3.7 Information commons and the attention economy
  • Information networks and cascades
  • 4.1 Random graphs and connectivity
  • 4.2 Small-world phenomena
  • 4.3 Clustered graphs and the degree of separation
  • 4.4 Kleinberg connectivity
  • 4.5 Information cascades in social networks
  • Information and money
  • 5.1 A brief history of money
  • 5.2 Money as commodity and the money marketplace
  • 5.3 Purchasing power dynamics in a wired world
  • 5.4 Greed is bad for the strong, worse for the weak
  • 5.5 Regulate what: material or money?

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