Editing Cooperation Workshop/Fall 2011 Sessions (section)

=== Session 2: September 29, 2011 ===

From Aaron:

: I'll be talking about some work I've been doing independently as well as in collaboration with Mako and Yochai.

:The four page "Project Memo" summarizes where I think we're going with this and how it fits into my personal research agenda. The much longer "Gatekeeping Online" piece is a paper I've been revising and resubmitting lately that should help to frame/illustrate the current state of my thinking on these topics in a more detailed way. For the purposes of our discussion, it is important that you read the short memo.

: FWIW, one slightly esoteric theory that frames much of this work is Robert Michels' (1915) "Iron Law of Oligarchy." If you want to know more about it, you can download a copy of the book from the Internet Archive.

* [http://epicenter.media.mit.edu/~mako/cooperation/Shaw-Project_Memo-2011-9-26-CRW.pdf Four page "Project Memo"] ('''Core reading''')
* [http://epicenter.media.mit.edu/~mako/cooperation/Shaw_Gatekeeping_Online.pdf Draft Paper on Daily Kos] ('''Contextual''')
* [http://www.archive.org/details/politicalparties00michuoft Michels on the Iron Law] ('''Contextual''')