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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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A MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH TO INTERORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION VIA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR TWITTER ACCOUNTS

Johnson, Lauren 01 January 2019 (has links)
Using an adaptation of O’Connor and Shumate’s (2018) theoretical propositions, this research examines interorganizational communication through the lens of multidimensional networks. Twitter data was crawled from a selection of emergency management organization accounts to measure affinity, representational, flow, and semantic networks. These data included the organizations’ followed accounts, retweets, replies, and mentions. A thematic analysis of the organizations’ mission statements was also conducted in order to inform the examination of the semantic networks. The results show a significant relationship between the number of accounts an organization follows and the likelihood of having its message shared. This research provides a further theoretical application of a network analysis method of studying interorganizational communication as well as a practical application for organizations seeking to increase their engagement on Twitter.
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Analyse et modélisation du processus de propagation des effets des actions militaires d'influence au sein d'une population cible : approche par la culture et les réseaux sociaux / Analysis and modeling of the propagation process of the effects of military influence operations in a target population : a culture and social networks based approach

Bergier, Jean-Yves 18 December 2018 (has links)
L’étude de la conflictualité armée dans les pays en développement et des effets des interventions extérieures visant à la circonscrire constitue un enjeu majeur et multidisciplinaire. La complexité des processus sociaux entrelacés dans de tels contextes génère des défis particuliers pour les approches de modélisation et simulation informatique. En effet la forme des conflits actuels, centrés autour des populations locales, a amené les forces de stabilisation à développer des actions dites d'influence, qui se donnent pour but de convaincre les locaux de la légitimité des opérations. Ce travail en retient trois (opérations psychologiques OMI/PSYOPS, opérations civilo-militaires et Key Leader Engagements) et propose une modélisation permettant de représenter la propagation de leurs effets au sein d'une population virtuelle réaliste. Cela nécessite une représentation détaillée des mécanismes psychologiques de persuasion et d’influence et des structures sociales considérées, et constitue donc un apport à l’analyse des processus de communication au sein de réseaux sociaux. On fait le choix d'une simulation sociale orientée agents permettant de représenter d'une part un échantillon composé uniquement d'individus (jusqu’à environ 10 000) dotés de mécanismes de traitement réalistes, et d'autre part la complexité des sphères de sociabilité collective en générant cette population sous forme d'un réseau multicouche. Le modèle conceptuel ainsi conçu permet d’intégrer pour chaque étape des critères pertinents pour la simulation des actions, mais aussi, eut égard à la nature même de celles-ci et de leurs enjeux, d’éclairer certains mécanismes sociaux caractéristiques d’un conflit armé / The study, analysis and understanding of armed violence phenomenons in developing countries and of the effects of international military interventions aimed at resolving them is a crucial contemporary issue. These situations coincidentally present, considering the plethora and complexity of the implicated and intertwined social processes, a challenge for social computing, modeling and simulation. A challenge but also an opportunity, as the evolution of the forms of conflict, today centered on the local populations, has prompted the armies tasked with implementing stabilization missions to develop influence actions. Such operations, overall concerned with persuading the locals of the legitimacy of the operations, allow a more comprehensive approach to conflict resolution, beyond the simple use of force. Modeling some of these specific actions (PSYOPS, CIMIC, and Key Leader Engagement) is a credible project and a contribution to analysis of communication and persuasion processes in social networks by taking into account detailed and specific social and cultural factors. This research thus presents a conceptual model allowing simulation of the effects of these specific actions of influence in a realistic civilian population. We chose an agent-based approach as these lend particularly well with this type of research, allowing us to generate a group of up to 10,000 agents, composed solely of individuals for a detailed cognitive treatment, and structured as a multilayer network for representing complex sociality. Given the nature of such actions and their context of application, such a model also highlights some social mechanisms typical of armed conflict situations

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