Speed Read - Connected: The amazing power of social networks and how they shape our lives

Katherine Kam

This Speed Read article summarises "Connected" by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler. The book argues that personal behaviour is intrinsically linked to the social networks that people are involved in and associates that people barely know will have a profound impact on actions often believed to be autonomous.

Speed Read – Connected: The Amazing Power of Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives

Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler, Harper Press (2010) (view on Amazon)

Introduction

Nicholas Christakis is a physician and professor at Harvard University and James Fowler is a professor at the University of California, appointed in the Department of Political Science and at the Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems.

Connectedargues that personal behaviour is deeply affected by the social networks that people are involved in and that people one barely knows can have a profound impact on actions...

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