From Networkedchange

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?)