What Universities Can Learn From Airline Alliances - Forbes.com: "Higher education needs to build tighter global networks to share resources and foster opportunities.
Fourteen years after Manuel Castells coined the term 'the network society,' networks are proliferating: human networks, social networks (real or virtual, as if the distinction mattered), commercial networks and information technology networks, not to mention the fraught challenge posed by new forms of terrorist networks. Fast-frozen structures have yielded to new forms of social organization with 'rhizomatic' reach, to borrow a term from French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and F�lix Guattari. Globalization is less a matter of uniformity than hyper-networking."
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