Are online conversations scalable?

A network analysis of the conversation of the Edgeryders platform (http://edgeryders.ppa.coe.int) shows that conversation online can scale by becoming more parallel: as new participants join, the community sprouts subcommunities that handle different -- but related -- parts of the conversation. So, a well-run online community can be viewed as a sort of massively parallel computer, whose components are humans.

This video is part of the Dragon Trainer project: find out more at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/eme...

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