Network Reading


For my Network project I would like to tackle the Mapping Networks assignment. I have read the articles "The Random Universe" and "Six Degrees of Separation"

In "The Random Universe" a discussion is brought to light about networking in explaining connections between bridges and proving that certain connects could or could not exist. The article goes on to then tell of how the graph theory was written out and how it is used to solve different problems, like the bridge, and others, like a maze, or chess moves. This article then goes on to discuss the possibilities of networks and how our universe has endless possibilities with connection of different kinds of networks. Using specific examples of different networks the article explains how the graph theory and other ways of thinking about networks are used to explain the our universe. One thing I find interesting about our universe is that mathematics that we have come up with can explain much of the possibilites of our universe.

The article "Six Degrees of Separation" begins with an explanation of an author who wrote works that were extremely unexpected for his time. Karinthy first wrote of the six degrees of separation idea in his book titled "Chains"

In "The Death of the Author" Roland Barthes argues that when analyzing texts critically, the author should become invisible to the reader. The author is seen as separate form the text in time and space, in that he or she was involved in the writing process in the past. As a reader, we are not supposed to