Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: PRISM/AP kerfluffle, etc

Posted by Robert Holmes-3 on Jul 17, 2013; 11:42pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/The-AP-kerfuffle-tp7583146p7583509.html

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Parks, Raymond <[hidden email]> wrote:

Before I spend $120 of your tax dollars, does that particular article cover the kind of massive breaking of connections that were attributed (incorrectly as it turns out) to Zuckerberg?  Even though the story was false, it seems possible that social networks might fragment in that manner over a subject controversial enough.

Well, it's a review paper so it doesn't really go into much depth on any one aspect but it does have pointers to other papers that do. Turns out that this has been studied since about 2003: Toyoda & Kitsuregawa (14 ACM conference on hypertext and hypermedia) built a taxonomy of the transitions that a community/cluster in a social network can undergo: grow, shrink, emerge, dissolve, split.

BTW, thanks for not spending $120 of my money. Do Sandia have access to Inter-Library Loan services? Or is that too low cost a solution for big government? ;)

—Robert

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