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

Posted by Parks, Raymond on Jul 17, 2013; 11:51pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/The-AP-kerfuffle-tp7583146p7583510.html

  Well, I looked at our collection and we don't have the book.  I'm sure they could get it in and, for that type of money on Amazon, I'd probably go that route.  I have gotten books via ILL.

  I have also been infected with the young folks' need for immediate gratification, though, so I do look at Amazon before the ILL.  Frequently, if the cost is low enough, I'll buy it personally rather than with Sandia funds.  Over the years I've probably bought a dozen books from Amazon that are actually for professional use at Sandia - but I don't expense them.

  I will contact our reference librarian and set her to looking for some of the other papers.  It's interesting for just the reason that Hussein suggests - what does it take to cause a breakup within a group?

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On Jul 17, 2013, at 5:42 PM, Robert Holmes wrote:

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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