Brazil's uprising points to rise of leaderless networks

• Autores: Debora MacKenzie
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2923, 2013, pág. 9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Brazilians are calling the protests sweeping through their country the Salad Uprising after police began arresting people carrying vinegar as a remedy for tear gas. The name could be more apt than protesters realize: uprisings of this sort could also have food links. But they spread like a disease. That may not be surprising. Dan Braha at the New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI) in Cambridge MA says civil unrest spreads like other spatial phenomena such as epidemics and forest fires: different factors control susceptibility, resistance, and rates of outbreak and transmission. He thinks recent cases of unrest relate to a general evolution within the societies away from hierarchies and towards leaderless networks.