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bias&#8211;or the echo chamber effect&#8211;returned me to some questions I was<br \/>\nthinking about at CCCC in San Francisco last week.&nbsp; We&#8217;re reading Burt&#8217;s<br \/>\nchapter for CCR711 this week, taking it up alongside a chapter on postmodern<br \/>\nmapping as research methodology from Porter and Sullivan&#8217;s <i>Opening Spaces<\/i>.&nbsp;<br \/>\nEarlier this semester, we read about homophily parameters in Duncan Watts&#8217; <i><br \/>\nSix Degrees<\/i>; commonly framed as <i><br \/>\n<a  href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/cosmos\/search.html?rank=&#038;url=&quot;echo+chamber&quot;\"><br \/>\necho chambers<\/a><\/i>, the concept circulates in correspondence to<br \/>\nlike-mindedness, absolution of dissent, or the kind of diminished, unproductive<br \/>\nparroting bound to stagnate&#8211;an abundance of closed-group gestures.&nbsp;<br \/>\nHomophily bias, then, is the orientation of a particular network structure<br \/>\ntoward such a closed-ness.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>And so I find the connection to CCCC in the structuring of Special Interest<br \/>\nGroups or SIGs&#8211;the interest-defined clusters that form around a particular<br \/>\nissue, cause, political imperative or specialization.&nbsp; SIGs meet each year,<br \/>\nand, of course, they make possible a forum for collegiality, perhaps even<br \/>\nsolidarity, organizational focus and expert niche.&nbsp; Variously, they serve<br \/>\nsocial, political and professional needs; as defined structures (form-alized<br \/>\nwith the petition to be listed in the program), they give us one way to imagine<br \/>\nthe field&#8211;embodied in the annual flagship conference&#8211;as a clustered topology.&nbsp;<br \/>\nFair to say? <\/p>\n<p>If we apply Burt&#8217;s analysis to these clusters, however, we might<br \/>\nbegin&#8211;productively&#8211;to find vocabulary for understanding the rules, roles and<br \/>\npower dynamics enforced in a particular SIG.&nbsp; The groups have membership<br \/>\nrosters, but what would happen if we started to differentiate the members as<br \/>\nconnectors (people who have multiple ties across special interest groups) and<br \/>\nbrokers (people who, because of their multiple ties, are able to pitch the<br \/>\ngroup&#8217;s interest to other, perhaps larger, bodies in the organization)?&nbsp;<br \/>\nShould the SIG accumulate too high a homophily bias, it would stand to<br \/>\ndisconnect from the more active channels in the organization.&nbsp; Through<br \/>\nparticularly well-connected agents&#8211;active connector-brokers capable of bridging<br \/>\nstructural holes in the organization&#8217;s topology&#8211;might the SIG sustain itself<br \/>\nbeyond a kind of isolation and connect meaningfully with the organization<br \/>\nat-large, provided, of course, that such broader persuasions are mutually valued<br \/>\nto the SIG&#8217;s members.&nbsp; For what it&#8217;s worth, I&#8217;m not thinking about any<br \/>\nparticular SIG; instead I&#8217;m trying to reconcile Burt&#8217;s terms with network<br \/>\nformations related to CCCC.&nbsp; Furthermore, I&#8217;m interested in exploring what<br \/>\nit might mean to convene a heterophily-biased interest group&#8211;maybe something<br \/>\nthat would have different interest groups co-mingle for fruitful partnerships<br \/>\nand cooperatives.<\/p>\n<p>Cross-posted to<br \/>\n<a  href=\"http:\/\/wrt-brooke.syr.edu\/net\/archives\/2005\/03\/homophily_bias_1.html\"><br \/>\nNetwork(ed) Rhetorics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>Among the many intriguing ideas offered by Ronald Burt in the chapter draft of &quot;Social Capital of Structural Holes,&quot; (PDF) from Brokerage and Closure, homophily 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