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Barry,
I was waiting for a thread on these topics also. The spread of the Turkish protests is very interesting, started with a small group protesting in a park, and now...
There is an article in Science this morning with network scientists interviewed about the NSA surveillance...
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6138/1272.summary [paywall]
Maybe listservs are no longer where these discussions take place? Maybe now it is Twitter and blogs???
Valdis Krebs
http://orgnet.com
http://thenetworkthinkers.com
On Jun 14, 2013, at 9:09 AM, Barry Wellman wrote:
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> I am flabbergasted that there has been no discussion on this list -- or even announcement -- of the NSA's use of social network analysis to do massive surveillance of American and unAmerican populations.
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> Nor any talk of the Turkish situation -- seems to fit Chuck Tilly's network-basis analyses of collective political behaviour.
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