COREnet: the fusion of social network analysis and target audience analysis
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Authors
Orkins, William R.
Kiernan, Carla A.
Subjects
target audience analysis
social network analysis
social movement theory
influence theory
military information support operations
SNA
SMT
TAA
COREnet
UCINET
MISO
social network analysis
social movement theory
influence theory
military information support operations
SNA
SMT
TAA
COREnet
UCINET
MISO
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Everton, Sean F.
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2014-12
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Dec-14
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Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School
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The purpose of this capstone is to highlight and explain how the target audience analysis (TAA) process can be enhanced by incorporating aspects of influence theory, social movement theory (SMT) and social network analysis (SNA). While a large body of literature addresses influence theory, SMT and SNA, little has been written within military information support operations (MISO) doctrine recognizing SNA in the analytical process. This capstone creates a method to apply SNA, SMT, and influence theory to existing MISO doctrine while also developing a scalable web-based application that assists with visualizing and analyzing open source data to draw meaningful conclusions and assist decision making on given operational problem sets. The web-based interface, COREnet, is a high fidelity prototype derived completely from open- source technology. The examples utilized are from a 2006 data set of an Indonesian terrorist network to demonstrate how SNA can be fully integrated into the TAA process.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.