Research Ideas for My Students

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Hello folks. This is by no means a comprehensive set of resources. It more reflects sources that seemed to be of interest to two or more of you AND that I thought might not jump out at you as pertinent. It is a mix of search terms, blogs, or alternative media.

EVERYONE should make an appointment with a Bucknell research librarian.

Mob Mentality

□ See Swarm intelligence as a search term. Also this book and tool.

□ See Smart Mobs as a search term. Also, this site and book.

How context shapes roles

□ Stanford Prison Experiment

How social network effects company

□ Work by Rob Cross

□ David Krackhardt

□ David Obstfeld

□ How brekatoroughs happen…

□ Blogs: Search them for your topics.

Orgtheory http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/

Complexity

Connecetddness

Visiblepath

Terrorism

□ Saddam Hussein and his network

□ RAND corporation

□ Orgnet

Torture:

□ Experts on torture

□ A historian of torture

□ Overview of news on detainees

Financial Bubbles…

□ Bill Moyers with Kuttner

□ Interviews with Greenspan

□ Greespan debate Naomi Klein, a critic (bubbles and feds role comes up)
Fanatic communities

□ MeetUp

□ Org theory post

Size of communties

□ Gore-Tex maker

Advertising

□ No logo- a critical assessment of advertising and capitalism.

□ Viral garden blog

Iraq:

□ Fiasco

□ Cobra II

□ Assassin’s Gate

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