COREnet: The Fusion of Social Network Analysis and Target Audience Analysis

Abstract

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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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA624906

Entities

People

  • Carla A. Kiernan
  • William R. Orkins

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Doctrine
  • Geography
  • Group Dynamics
  • Information Operations
  • International Relations
  • Military Information Support Operations
  • Military Operations
  • Military Science
  • Military Training
  • Psychological Operations
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Reliability
  • Social Networks
  • Social Sciences
  • Students
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).