NEWS: US scientists investigate social networking
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Found on: computerweekly.com
Computer scientists at a US university have devised an experiment to test the effectiveness of social networks.
Interest in social networking has grown since 1969 when psychologists produced the “six degrees of separation” theory – the idea that everyone in the world is linked, with only six connections separating any two people.
The internet – with social networking sites such as MySpace and the growing community of bloggers – has stoked interest in how these networks function. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science tested a number of social network theories by asking a group of students to play a colour picking game on networked computers. Each student had to pick a colour that was different to that chosen by anyone who was immediately connected to him or her in the network.
Found on: computerweekly.com
Computer scientists at a US university have devised an experiment to test the effectiveness of social networks.Interest in social networking has grown since 1969 when psychologists produced the “six degrees of separation” theory – the idea that everyone in the world is linked, with only six connections separating any two people.
The internet – with social networking sites such as MySpace and the growing community of bloggers – has stoked interest in how these networks function. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science tested a number of social network theories by asking a group of students to play a colour picking game on networked computers. Each student had to pick a colour that was different to that chosen by anyone who was immediately connected to him or her in the network.
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