http://www.wsj.com/articles/t-mobile-cracks-down-on-heavy-data-users-1441963980 T-Mobile has made a substantial effort to stop users from tethering their phones to a computer allowing the computer to have 3G/4G Internet connection. Cell phone companies provide Internet access to their customers on their smartphone. T-Mobile, the least profitable of the four carriers, has been offering generous deals on data plans to […]
Structural Balance in International Aid
http://news.yahoo.com/south-sudan-lifts-aid-blockade-093311073.html http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/live-news/2015/9/un-and-world-food-program-step-up-efforts-to-aid-south-sudan.html Last month, South Sudan’s army removed a previous aid blockade into the rebel areas of the region. The aid came at a dire time as fighting as continued despite continued peace talks. Several nations, including the United States, have been giving aid continuously to the region. Sudan and the nations aiding it could […]
The Strength of Weak Ties in Revolutions
Social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook, are perhaps the largest examples of networks with weak and strong ties. These networks are also the largest platforms for social activism and change. This article examines the use of strong and weak ties in social activism and comes to a startling conclusion. The author suggests that weak […]
Sociability and Amygdale Size
It is quite a well known fact that the centrality and extent of social behavior within species varies widely in the animal kingdom. The source of this difference has not been resolutely identified until recent years, when a cross-specie study with primates has demonstrated a strong relationship between the degree of sociability within a primate […]
Politicians Connect to Social Media Networks
In the upcoming 2016 presidential election, political candidates are using more social networks to try to reach out to the millennial generation. Politicians’ campaigns include Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, and other live-streaming apps. Politicians are trying to advertise to more of the millennials and generation Z, the newest round of registered voters who frequent these […]
Parable of the Polygons
Parable of the polygons, developed by Vi Hart and Nicky Case, is a game that is based on a well-known economist Thomas Schelling’s model of segregation. Schelling’s model shows how individual bias could lead to segregation, which is especially useful in studies of neighborhood segregation of ethnic groups. In the Parable, neighborhoods are occupied by […]
Facility Location Game in the 2016 Democratic Primaries
So far we have learned many social and economic applications for network analysis. The most interesting implication for me is that of game theory in relation to sociological phenomena, especially the Potential Facility Location Game example found in the advanced material of chapter 6. In this example, two firms compete through their choice of locations, […]
Microsoft’s Suprising Appearance in Apple’s Latest Keynote
Link: http://fortune.com/2015/09/09/microsoft-apple-event-office/ Under Cook’s management, Apple has been transforming from a costumer-centric platform to a more business related firm. With this new mindset, they have made partnerships with Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, etc. Earlier this week, on September 9th, apple invited a Microsoft executive to demonstrate the Microsoft Office on the new Ipad Pro during the keystone […]
Middle East respiratory syndrome
Last May, the first Middle Easy respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) patient was confirmed in Korea. And within a month, there were more than hundreds of patients in South Korea suffering from such virus. In fact, the number of patients in South Korea quickly outnumbered the number of patients in Saudi Arabia, where the virus was […]
Game Theory: It’s All Greek to Me
Concepts in game theory are found to be applicable in a variety of fields and situations. Games such as the Prisoners’ Dilemma have shown to be especially applicable in fields ranging from biology to psychology, and sports to economics. The concepts present in this particular “game” are also highly applicable to events such as the Greek […]
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