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- Re: Following the e-mail trail in the US Attorneys controversy
By: Allan Friedman
Date: Mar 26, 2007 10:35 AM
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25 March 2007
Following the e-mail trail in the US Attorneys controversy
To any social network scholars out there, I will feature any decent network pictures that you come up with from the e-mail data released by the DOJ on the Netgov blog.
One of the notable points (to a social network scholar) of the controversy over the firing of the 8 US attorneys are the DOJ e-mails that have been released .
This episode illustrates the siren call of e-mail. Here is a set of people who have an enormous incentive to keep their interactions untraceable, and yet so much of their communication is via e-mail. It’s just too convenient. I am sure that truly sensitive issues are much more likely to be conducted via face to face or phone, but it is hard to anticipate what will become sensitive. Thus, for example, one e-mail highlights the AG’s presence at a meeting about the firings, contradicting some of his later statements. It would have been hard to anticipate that this would be an issue when the e-mail was sent.
Our lives, in short, are becoming increasingly recorded by the (nonhuman) network—via e-mail, via mass transit cards, via phone records. What are the implications for social science? As I have discussed before, and will focus on in a series of entries in a month or so, the implications are potentially revolutionary for our understandings of collective human behavior. Whether the academy is poised to seize the day is another story (something else I will be examining).
Posted by David Lazer at March 25, 2007 9:16 PM
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