Idea Spread: Toward a Research Program in Socio-Cultural Modeling and Cultural Engineering for Security, Defense, and Intelligence

Abstract

This document outlines a research program in idea spread, otherwise known as (military) memetics or thought contagion. We use the frameworks of complexity and socio-cultural and cognitive-behavioral modeling. Throughout the document, we try to present the results in terms of a project of cultural engineering and in the context of defense, security, and intelligence issues.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2008
Accession Number
AD1123910

Entities

People

  • Arthur Fries
  • William Frawley

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Cognitive Science
  • Commerce
  • Computers
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Families (Human)
  • Governments
  • Information Operations
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Money
  • Psychology
  • Reliability
  • Security
  • Social Networks
  • Social Sciences
  • Standards
  • Terrorists
  • Thinking

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  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.