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Um, I might be missing this, but I don't think we're interpreting this correctly. The contract title is Social Media in Strategic Communication, which implies t
by mashmac2 15y ago
Um, I might be missing this, but I don't think we're interpreting this correctly. The contract title is Social Media in Strategic Communication, which implies that they're looking at integrating social into their military communications, not creating DoD Facebook profiles or trying to influence public sentiment on Twitter.
- IanDrake 15y agoI think you need to develop a more healthy skepticism about government. From the intro: 1. Detect, classify, measure and track the (a) formation, development and spread of ideas and concepts (memes), and (b) purposeful or deceptive messaging and misinformation. 2. Recognize persuasion campaign structures and influence operations across social media sites and communities. 3. Identify participants and intent, and measure effects of persuasion campaigns. 4. Counter messaging of detected adversary influence operations.
- jjguy 15y ago"Strategic Communication" is a phrase with very precise meaning to those in the DOD. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_communication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_communication
- JakeSc 15y agoPerhaps you didn't read the proposal. That's exactly what they're trying to do. "1. Linguistic cues, patterns of information flow, topic trend analysis, narrative structure analysis, sentiment detection and opinion mining; 2. Meme tracking across communities, graph analytics/probabilistic reasoning, pattern detection, cultural narratives; 3. Inducing identities, modeling emergent communities, trust analytics, network dynamics modeling; 4. Automated content generation, bots in social media, crowd sourcing."