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Read the RFP. 3/4 of the goals are about understanding, not influencing. After reading it, I'm excited about the kind of research I hope gets done and published

Read the RFP. 3/4 of the goals are about understanding, not influencing. After reading it, I'm excited about the kind of research I hope gets done and published around this. Five will get you ten the grad students/profs who work on it end up creating startups: " The general goal of the Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program is to develop a new science of social networks built on an emerging technology base. In particular, SMISC will develop automated and semi‐automated operator support tools and techniques for the systematic and methodical use of social media at data scale and in a timely fashion to accomplish four specific program goals: 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. "

JakeSc 15y ago
I have another list for you, where 50% of the goals are about influencing: "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."
- FeministHacker 15y ago
  1 to 3 of your above list are about determining and uderstanding, not influencing. Sure, ultimately this would be about influencing, but you can't really do that without the former being well-understood first. Arguably, the former is actually more important to national security concerns, too (the set of identities on the internet >> the set of those you will interact with and be able to influence)

JakeSc 15y ago

I have another list for you, where 50% of the goals are about influencing: "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."

FeministHacker 15y ago
1 to 3 of your above list are about determining and uderstanding, not influencing. Sure, ultimately this would be about influencing, but you can't really do that without the former being well-understood first. Arguably, the former is actually more important to national security concerns, too (the set of identities on the internet >> the set of those you will interact with and be able to influence)