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I hope you'll all pardon me for creating a new term in a world already overwhelmed with jargon. I want to collect examples of the use of network analysis and network visualization by interlopers--especially journalists, designers and the lay public. I'm calling it "neotopology" in order to draw comparisons to neogeography. I'm thinking of things like the New York Times oscar map [1] or Christian Swineheart's network visualizations of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure novels [2]. Along with examples, if anyone has pointers to folks thinking about this influx of network rhetoric (esp. visual) into popular discourse, that would be much appreciated as well.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/02/20/movies/among-the-oscar-contenders-a-host-of-connections.html?_r=0
[2] http://samizdat.cc/cyoa/

Thanks,
Elijah

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Elijah Meeks
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Digital Humanities Specialist
Academic Computing Services
Stanford University
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