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. To develop a systematic understanding of these potential benefits, ODNI requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conduct a decadal survey of the social and behavioral sciences to identify research opportunities that show promise for supporting national security efforts in the next 10 years.
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This Proceedings of a Workshop, prepared by the workshop rapporteur, summarizes the presentations and discussions at the third workshop, which addressed advances in social network thinking.3 This workshop was planned by the Steering Committee on Understanding Networks for National Security Purposes, whose charge is presented in Box 1-1. The workshop's purpose was to explore the current state of research on social 2 For more information about the Decadal Survey and all of the workshops, see http://nas.
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OBJECTIVES FOR THE SIX WORKSHOPS In an opening session for the three October 11, 2017, workshops, the chair of the Decadal Survey Committee, Paul Sackett, University of Minnesota, and sponsor representative David Honey, ODNI, provided background information on the objectives for the six workshops. Sackett observed that the Decadal Survey Committee will rely heavily on input from experts in the communities of national security and behavioral and social science research.
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occur. The national security community is eager for new ways to understand such events and how to respond to them, and also for better ways to assess their interventions after the fact." Honey thanked the participants for contributing, emphasizing that their ideas would be "crucial for getting us where we need to go." INTRODUCTION TO THE WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL NETWORK THINKING The workshop steering committee recognized that advancing technology is changing the environment in which humans reside, and that these changes are in turn influencing the way social networks form and evolve, as well as how they might be studied.
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One of the echo chamber bots associated with ISIS could not be discovered using traditional social network metrics. Within the Twitter platform, sophisticated use of @mentions through the bot made it possible to grow networked communities, promote accounts, and gain influence on these communities.
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In addition to the challenges previously cited, she observed that sampling biases may be introduced when companies or data providers limit access to some data and when legal authorities limit the collection and storage of certain data. Carley explained that the workshop would consider two emerging notions of the science of social networks that have come to be referred to as "networks-plus" and "complexity." The term "networks-plus" refers to research that goes beyond the simplified view of "who-to-whom" connections in a network to consider the contexts associated with or external influences on that network, as well as the contributions of physiological, psychological, and cognitive factors that influence the individual network members.
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Finally, Chapter 5 summarizes the discussions between presenters and other workshop participants on the topics raised during the workshop, focusing on collaboration networks in the IC, areas for further research on networks and network thinking, data needs, and ethical considerations in conducting research on social networks.
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