{"id":1441,"date":"2010-09-30T00:43:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T07:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2010\/09\/weak_ties_and_social_change\/"},"modified":"2010-09-30T00:43:25","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T07:43:25","slug":"weak_ties_and_social_change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/weak_ties_and_social_change.php","title":{"rendered":"Weak ties and social change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The loose connections that comprise our on-line networks may associate us all with Kevin Bacon, but do they help us change the world? Malcolm Gladwell says &#8216;not so much&#8217; in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2010\/10\/04\/101004fa_fact_gladwell\">intriguing piece on social media and social change<\/a> in <i>The New Yorker<\/i>. But Jonah Lehrer of&nbsp;<i>Wired<\/i>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2010\/09\/weak-ties-twitter-and-revolutions\/\">has higher hopes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The debate centers on &#8216;weak tie&#8217; and &#8216;strong tie&#8217; relationships, and which ones are required to advance significant social change. Gladwell posits that most on-line social networks are havens for weak-tie relationships (friends of friends, passing acquaintances, and such), and that strong-tie relationships (close friends, people we know and trust) are required to get hard stuff done.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Lehrer counters that without weak-tie relationships to connect them, tight-knit groups can become separate and disjointed, unable to mobilize larger social movements.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Who&#8217;s right? Probably both of them. So, artful managers will hedge their bets by building both strong-tie and weak-tie networks just in case.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The loose connections that comprise our on-line networks may associate us all with Kevin Bacon, but do they help us change the world? Malcolm Gladwell says &#8216;not so much&#8217; in his intriguing piece on social media and social change in The New Yorker. But Jonah Lehrer of&nbsp;Wired&nbsp;has higher hopes. The debate centers on &#8216;weak tie&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}