I think your strategy is useful and you had already identified your social network.
However, I have some questions. What specific points of Japanese Educational system should be reformed? What is the Liberal Educational system? That is, what factors does the Liberal Educational system have? What are many educational problems in Japan?
I hope my reply will be helpful for you!
I think Kota's summary is well-organized and he parphrased so well. Thus, I want to refer to his style of the summary to my next summary.
In his reaction, he claimed "Barabasi seemed to ignore the influence on human interrelationship by technology". I think it's agood point and agree with his opinion because he suggests his own example. His example is also believable for me. Thank you for your good reaction.
Discussion Question
What do you think about that "the dream of Tim Berners-Lee in 1980" (30)? Do you think his dream come true? In addition, why?
Your message.
1. What is your sticky message? (Barabasi 3) What is the idea you wish to promote or issue/problem you want to try to 'solve'?
I want to try to solve the issue of Asian diplomacy and terrorism.
'Yasukuni Shrine should be non-religious.'
'Japanese should pray for the victims of WWⅡ at Tidorigafuti instead of Yasukuni Shrine.'
'The countermeasures in U.S. against recent terrorism may provoke (pick) with terrorists.'
Knowledge of social network.
2. Who is your strategic social group? Can you identify and define the organizational base you will need to develop and/or tap into?
Civilian
Japanese
Asian people
U.N.
NGO
Goverments
Religious people
Strategy for network building.
3. How will work to create your organizational base? How will you spread and encourage others to take up your message?
I will spread my message by propaganda (advertisement) in the famous search engine and H.P. or Blog (Web log). In addition, I make my blog or H.P. and ask them to attach my link to other Webpages. Utilizing Pop-up system and Affiliate Program. SNS is also useful.
Barabasi emphasizes that the world is very small by "the highly interconnected nature of these networks" (34). This reality is so different with their impression, so it's amazingly. It can be stated that the explanation of the author is mistaken at least one point, that is, utilizing the statistical mechanics. The reason why utilizing them is unuseful for the explanation is that statisitics are after all within the supposition. Social psychology states that the statistical hypothesis often occurs mistakes, for example, the judgements of DNA for identifying the identical person. In addition, it cannot be the evidence for ninteen degrees of separation in all Web even if "all other networks studied so far display a separation between two and fourteen" (34). The reason why people think so is only caused by human impression, that is, people are apt to believe the examples and apply one result to another case. However, social psychology also shows that the reality and truth is usually very different from human impression. For example, people believe that crimes have been increasing since before, but they have been decreasing since 1950 in the real in Japan. Moreover, other explanations of the author are believable. Thus, after all, it could be claimed that the assertion of the author is the right.
Barabasi asserts that people "live in a small world because society is a very dense web" (30) by using many examples of the very small number of links that can connect two randomly selected nodes in a network. There are his examples. First example is so-called “six degrees of separation”. It originates from "Karinthy's 1929 insight that people are linked by at most five links" (27) and this concept was rediscovered by Staley Milgram's experoment in 1967. The result of his experiment showed people that the distance between two randomly selected persons are only 5.5 on average in the United States. Originally, Milgram's study was confined to the United States, however, John Guare spreaded his vision that "six degrees applied to the whole world" (29) by his play. Next example is in a network of Webpages within Notre Dame University. This experiment was conducted by Barabasi and two other people and the result of this is eleven clicks away from each other, so "there are eleven degrees of separation at Notre Dame". In addition, final example is also Barabasi's experiment. As a result, he estimated that the number of links that people need to connect two documents in World Wide Web is 18.59 on average by utilizing the statistical mechanics. Thus, there are "ninteen degrees of separation" (34) in the full Web. In short, Barabasi emphasizes that the world is very small because of "the highly interconnected nature of these networks" (34).
I think her summary is well-organized, too.
Moreover, I think Takako is very thoughtful and critical person because of her reaction.
I think Emi's summary is well-organized and easy to understand, in addition, her final sentense that "The aim of this book is getting you to think networks, and step out the box of reductionism and explore" clearly shows a main idea of the author. However, her summary may be shortened because her summary is a bit long.
