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_ma... 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/