August 2021 - community - communitydata.science

A CDSC Fediverse presence
by Benj. Mako Hill 29 Aug '21

29 Aug '21

Greetings! Because it seemed kind of awkward to ask Debian people to stay up-to-date by following our Twitter, I've set up CDSC account in the Fediverse (AKA Mastodon, ActivityPub, etc). It's online here: https://social.coop/@communitydata At the moment, it's just set to automatically repost any posts from @comdatasci to the Fediverse account, and vice versa. 1. If you are active the Fediverse, feel free to follow and/or spread the word so we build an audience. 2. Details on crossposting, the account, etc are online here: https://wiki.communitydata.science/CommunityData:Blog_and_social_media If you don't want to crosspost, just add #noxp and it should Do The Right Thing. 3. If you're on the People page on the wiki, I will try to add you to the list of featured follows on the account if I see you follow. I would love it if other people had access to this so they could help maintain it, grant access to others, etc. Reach out to me offlist if you can help and I'll get you the password. Can I volunteer you, Carl? Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill https://mako.cc/academic/

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Sociotechnocanonicon (September 1 & 8): Marwell and Oliver's "The Critical Mass in Collective Action"
by Benj. Mako Hill 29 Aug '21

29 Aug '21

Greetings folks! For those that weren't at the meeting last week... The plan for the next week is to read (or revisit) Pamela Oliver and Gerald Marwell's book on "Critical Mass in Collective Action": Week 11 (September 1) 1pm Pacific, 3pm Central: Chapters 1-4 (pg 1-100) on "Building blocks: goods, groups, and processes"; "The paradox of group size"; and "The dynamics of production functions" Week 12 (September 8) 1pm Pacific, 3pm Central: Chapters 5-8 (pg 101-193) on "Social networks: density, centralization, and cliques"; "Selectivity in social networks"; "Reach and selectivity as strategies of recruitment;" and "Unfinished business" PLUS! Marwell & Oliver's retrospective "Whatever Happened to Critical Mass Theory?" https://doi.org/10.1111/0735-2751.00142 A soft copy of the book is online here: https://mako.cc/outgoing/private/9wxz3ztcqUkCbrIt/marwell_oliver-critical_m… We'll meet in/at the normal place/time: https://wiki.communitydata.science/Sociotechnocanonicon This will be the last book of the summer! Please join us if you can. Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill https://mako.cc/academic/

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Sociotechnocanonicon (August 18): Margaret Levi's "On Rule and Revenue" Chapters 1-4
by Benj. Mako Hill 21 Aug '21

21 Aug '21

Greetings! For reading group next week (August 18) we'll be reading Margaret Levi's "On Rule and Revenue" which is a book about legitimacy in governance through a analysis of taxation. You may recall seeing it discussed at some length in Elinor Ostrom's "Governing the Commons." This coming week we'll be reading the first half of the book (Chapters 1-4). There's a soft copy of the book in PDF here: https://mako.cc/outgoing/private/dQAjeBJrh61LKp0z/levi-on_rule_and_revenue.… The plan is to read the second half of the book next week but it looks like the entire second half of the book is extended historical examples so we decide as a group what to do next week. After this we're going to read Pamela Oliver and Gerald Marwell's book on the "Critical Mass in Collective Action" which we read a couple years ago but which is important enough that it's worth returning to it for the newer folks who haven't read it yet and for a bunch of us that are planning a paper that is directly inspired by a conversation we had last time we read it. Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill https://mako.cc/academic/

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Sociotechnocanonicon (August 11): Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Benj. Mako Hill 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

Greetings! For reading group next week (August 11) we'll be reading Thomas Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions." There's a soft copy of the book in PDF and ePub here: https://mako.cc/outgoing/private/FJh7gvyBUzrRzhPK/kuhn-structure_of_scienti… https://mako.cc/outgoing/private/NRr2HHblnWgjrGws/kuhn-structure_of_scienti… The book is a pretty fast read but we WILL be talking about the whole book on Wednesday so don't leave it until the last minute! Remaining suggestions are Margaret Levy's book on legitmacy and governance and Pam Oliver and Gerry Marwell's book on the critical mass in collective action which we read a couple years ago. We likely will only do two more books after this week so if there's anything you want to cover as a group, now is the time to speak up! Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill https://mako.cc/academic/

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