Your social network post of the week

Posted By Daniel W. Drezner Friday, November 12, 2010 - 4:55 PM Share

There's been a cluster of interesting online content about the politics of social networks and how social networks affects political economy. Let the linkfest commence!

1) Charli Carpenter on the emergent philosophy of MarkZism on Facebook. See also Zadie Smith on The Social Network, and Susan Orlean's Facebook-altered friendship hierarchy.

2) The Economist this week has a special section on the growth of smart systems and how they impinge on reality as we know it.

3) Finally, techPresident ably summarizes some guy's argument about the internet's varied effects on state-society relations.

Network amongst yourselves and chat away about the implications.