Review Points

Social Network Foundational Theories
Granovetter
Strong ties
weak ties
Small World Problem
Lois Weisberg
The wisdom of crowds
Wise/Unwise crowds
Dunbar's number
Power Law Theory, 80/20 Rule, Long tail

Anonymity
Trolling
Cyber bullying
Deindividuation
Stanford Prison Experiment
Obediance

Brain Chemistry
oxytocin (love, trust)
dopamine (reward)
reward systems
connections between nodes in-real-life versus online

Asynchronous Communication Criticism
Franzen - too easy, not enough passion, 'to like'
Slacktavism
Keller - Twitter makes you stupid
Turkle - isolation, doesn't build connections; self-editing (aspirational, defensive, malicious)
Gladwell - strong ties are needed for revolutions, SNS protects the status quo

weak ties = info shared
strong ties = action shared

Arab Spring
Tunisia - SNS-heavy
Egypt - SNS crucial at beginning, army needed to succeed
Libya - SNS light
Syria - SNS plays many roles on both sides

Morozov - cyberupotians
York - regimes learn to use SNS