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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.

Nor any talk of the Turkish situation -- seems to fit Chuck Tilly's 
network-basis analyses of collective political behaviour.

   Barry Wellman
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