Dissertation Research/Hypotheses and Research Questions

= Hypotheses and research questions = Given the above I have identified some as yet ill understood aspects of this change that need to be refined and are presented below for feedback.

Hypotheses


 * H0: Attention scarce, information rich environments privilege a community centric, collaborative politics more so than in the past.


 * H1: The new community politics that arises centers around digital commons type resources and relies on voluntaristic engagement.

Research questions


 * R1: How does decision making occur under conditions of unlimited bandwidth?


 * R2: How does the collaborative social behavior arise initially?


 * R3: How does the collaborative network like behavior get incorporated and leveraged? (Is it because of a particular node in the network? Is it because of a particular set of properties of the network as a whole?)


 * R4: What blocks the behavior from extending beyond the level at which it occurs? (Is it a lack of familiarity of critical nodes? Is it limitations in the technological affordances of the infrastructure?)


 * R5: Where or when is it crowded out?


 * R6: Where or when does it work best? (Does it work best in networks of similar or heterogeneous actors? What, if any, types of heterogeneity are valuable?)


 * R7: What are the necessary conditions for success? What conditions prevent it from occurring? Internal properties: human resources, technical resources, assets? External context: Existence of alternate solutions or competing network solutions?


 * R8: What are its stages of development? (How does it move from latent possibility, isolated shoots of development, coalescence, crystallization, execution and finally dispersal or decay?)