SocialNetworkAnalysis

ThoughtStorms Wiki

Context : Essential to understand NetoCracy

Software from ValdisKrebs : http://www.orgnet.com/

Starts to get ethically icky when researchers actually make interventions into people's Facebook networks (with company approval) : http://www.zdnet.com/facebook-unethical-untrustworthy-and-now-downright-harmful-7000031106 (though I personally see how this happened and would probably have signed off on the ethics of something like this.) (See also CambridgeAnalytica scandals in the rise of FarRightPopulism, TheSocialDilemma)

OTOH : I think what they found out knowledge worth having. But it's largely worth having in order to know the danger that corporations having this power present. You wouldn't want the academic study of this to be banned, and for the research to disappear into internal surreptitious tinkerings where no-one else ever sees the results except in private reports to the marketing department and advertisers.

2021

Comparison of ISIS and BoogalooBoys growth : https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2021/05/extremist-group-growth-follows-mathematical-pattern-new-study-shows/174304/

RossMayfield on Blogmap : http://radio.weblogs.com/0114726/2003/01/30.html#a257

TouchGraph Wiki analyzer : http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?TouchGraphWikiBrowser

Guess looks good. JythonLanguage based, using the Java JUNG library underneath but scriptable in PythonLanguage : http://graphexploration.cond.org/manual.html

Real example from industry : http://gates.comm.virginia.edu/rlc3w/sna.htm

SlumLandlord example on PoliticalMapping

SNA vs GlobalGuerrillas : http://www.orgnet.com/hijackers.html

CategoryNetworks, CategoryNetworkSociety