“Six degrees of separation” is a concept that is now well embedded in our minds. Living, as we do, in an increasingly networked world, it is a banal fact that everyone is connected to everyone via a surprisingly small number of waypoints.
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But after watching people like
@fortelabs,@vgr and others act and engage on Twitter, I began to wonder if the idea of “six degrees of separation” applies to knowledge acquisition.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @Matthew_Sweet @fortelabs
You might like the work of Bruno Latour on actor-network theory. There is actually quite a lot of scholarship on the interplay of knowledge and networks.
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Replying to @vgr @fortelabs
Sweet. Is there a "seminal" paper/book about it? Or just anything by Latour?
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Replying to @Matthew_Sweet @fortelabs
Just start from wikipedia. @hewhocutsdown likely has good recos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor%E2%80%93network_theory …
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