[p2p-research] rants on sociometry

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi,

please have a look at http://del.icio.us/mbauwens/P2P-Metrics and also
http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Metrics

I do not follow social network analysis very closely because I personally
think it has issues of reductionism ..

Peer to peer should not be confounded with 'flat' network analysis, because
peers have depth and intention ...

though of course, a self-aware reductionist scientific exercise does have
value in illuminating some aspect or other, but scientism often lurks behind
the science,

so the relation of sociometry with p2p is loose and 'instrumental'

it is normal that strategic forces will try to instrumentalize human
relationality in one way or another, but, flatland and measurable peer
relations resemble more non-intentional and non-human dynamics,

Michel

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 9:51 PM, mrc <eskerda at hacklaviva.net> wrote:

> heey, i'm lost in a research, so maybe i'm just trolling..... please asist
> this lammer if u can, thanx.
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> what's the relation of this with p2p.?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociometry
> "As the ...science of group organization, it attacks the problem not from
> the outer structure of the group, the group surface, but from the inner
> structure."
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> So as the rest of "social things", it depends lots on the real
> parameters-values the group has choosen to give points to. however:
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> distributed sociometry is ever posible? sociometric points are always
> finite within a group? are roles finite too? should roles be mainly
> offered by just a member of the group  ?
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> (for example: the queers probably don't like sociometry? )
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> the quantity and quality of traffic... on a-some ('fair') human (tending
> to) p2p network, how is that ammount of P2Pism quantified and qualified?
> can you direct me to some measurers?
> i think i heard about unitarization needed for p2p, so.. p2pmetrics makes
> any sense.. ?
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> sorry about this if no sense at all... i'll find 'it' out somehow else....
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> :p
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