The Socially Competent Node

Consider the following deviant characters: loose cannons, blabbermouths, gossipers, and yentas, stool pigeons and canaries, tattlers and squealers, garblers, the nosy, the deaf to hints,

Religion and Learning to be a Node

A short excerpt from zeroth draft of chapter “Learning to be a node” The chapter is about how social networks depend on competent nodes and

Notification and the Life Course

We’ve become so aware of our embeddedness in networks that it’s easy to forget that you have to learn how to be a node. Competent