redes: manual ilustrado para personas, colectivos y empresas abocados al ciberactivismo, disponivel em:http://www.deugarte.com/gomi/el_poder_de_las_redes.pdf [Esta no prelo a traducao brasileira: O poder das redes. Porto Alegre: CMDC/ediPUCRS, 2008].b) Leituras de aprofundamentoPara uma visao mais aprofundada e necessario, entretanto, enfrentar, pelo menos, os seguintes textos:1 Tapscott, Don (1996) The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1996.2 Standage, Tom (1998). The Victorian Internet. New York: Berkeley Books, 1998.3 Watts, Duncan (1999). Small worlds: the dynamics of networks between order and randomness. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1999.4 Arquilla, John e Ronsfeld, David (2000). Swarming and the Future of Conflict. USA: Rand Corporation, Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2000.5 Himanen, Pekka (2001). The hacker ethic and the spirit of the information age. New York: Random House, 2001.6 Levy, Steven (2001). Crypto: how the code rebels beat the government, saving privacy in the digital age. New York: Penguin Books, 2001.7 Raymond, Eric S. (2001). The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary. New York: OReilly, 2001.8 Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo (2002). Linked: how everything is connected to everything else and what it means. New York: Basic Books, 2002.9 Watts, Duncan, Dodds, Peter & Muhamad, Roby (2002). Um Estudo Experimental de Busca em Redes Sociais Globais. Science (2 December 2002; accepted 23 May 2003 10.1126/science.1081058): ver a edicao de Franco, Augusto (2003), disponivel in Carta Capital Social 107 (www.augustodefranco.com.br).10 Rheingold, Howard (2002). Smart mobs: the next social revolution. New York: Basic Books, 2002. [Existe edicao em espanhol: Multitudes inteligentes. Madrid: Gedisa, 2004].11 Buchanan, Mark (2002). Nexus: Small Worlds and groundbreaking science of networks. New York: WWNorton, 2002.12 Bard, Alexander e Soderqvist, Jan (2002). La netocracia: el Nuevo poder en la Red y la vida despues del capitalismo. Espanha: Pearson Educacion, 2005.13 Watts, Duncan (2003). Six degrees: the science of a connected age. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003.14 Strogatz, Steven (2003). Sync: the emerging science of spontaneous order. New York: Hyperion, 2003.15 Cross, Rob & Parker, Andrew (2004). The hidden power of social networks: understanding how work really gets done in organizations. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2004.16 Gardner, Susannah (2005). Buzz Marketting with blogs for dummies. New York: John Wiley, 2005.17 Popovics, Srdja et all (2006). Bringing Down a Dictator. DVD disponivel em http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/order.php#film2 Um guia do filme pode ser baixado em http://www.aforcemorepowerful.org/films/bdd/eo/bdad-discussion-guide.pdf 18 Newman, Mark, Barabasi, Albert-Laszlo & Watts, Duncan (eds.) (2006). The structure and dynamics of networks. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2006.Faltou aqui, evidentemente, o extenso campo do conhecimento chamado Social Network Analysis, que ja conta com algumas centenas de publicacoes importantes (quem quiser mais informacoes sobre o assunto deve consultar o site da INSNA International Network for Social Network Analysis: http://www.insna.org/ ou ler os livros de Stanley Wasserman, da Universidade de Illinois, como: Wasserman, Stanley & Faust, Katherine (1994). Social Network Analysis: methods and applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999 e Wasserman, Stanley & Galaskiewicz (orgs.) (1994). Advances in Social Network Analysis: research in the social and behavioral sciences. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1994.ComentariosMuito interessante esta carta.