Networks, social and biological links

The Seed Salon: Conversations on science and culture
with Albert-László Barabási and James Fowler

Barabási mathematically describes networks in the World Wide Web, the internet, the human body, and society at large. Fowler seeks to identify the social and biological links that define us as humans.

In this video Salon (8:26 / 35.5 MB), Barabási and Fowler discuss contagion and the Obama campaign, debate the natural selection of robustness, and ask: Is society turning inward?

Great discussion between two of the academic heavyweights in SNA, says Valdis Krebs, member of ONA-prac group, an online forum for a growing international Community of Practice on Organizational Network Analysis (ONA).