Issue mapping is a concept to study the social connections made when actors interact and create bonds. It asks how a matter of “fact” becomes a matter of “concern” when connections are made, and can be an especially fruitful way to study online culture and phenomena.
Thinking about a freak traffic accident and its huge butterfly effects made me reflect on the similarities with terror attacks. Can such things be prevented at all?
Generalization, in the sense of knowing all there is to know, is an illusion, but it is an illusion worth chasing because the knowledge we gain along the way holds plenty of excitement already. says Ad Backus (Tilburg University).