Phone call records, email logs and location data are primary sources for the NSA in constructing “social network diagrams” described by the New York Times as “sophisticated graphs of some ...

On today's show, we're kind of down on Microsoft Office 365 and poor MySpace's future, but we feel a tiny bit positive about the overlapping circles of nerdiness that could be possible with Google ...

The senate is not two homogenous sides. It is a series of affiliated cliques, more like the lunchroom scene in "Mean Girls" than the gym scene in "West Side Story." ...

A social network diagram (Photo credit: Wikipedia) WAYN created a system where users could automatically send invites to friends in their email address book –a now ubiquitous feature that was ...

In the immediate aftermath of Saddam Hussein's capture on Dec. 13, 2003, network theory got a brief moment of glory. The Washington Post ran a story about the role of "link diagrams" in Hussein's ...

Just how the government can mine social network data for where you have been and where you will go can be seen in a video by defense contractor Raytheon that was obtained by The Guardian. An ...

A social networking diagram, consisting of multiple ''levels'' of sociability, with the yellow dot in the center representing the most social within the society.

Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference last Friday morning, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell had this to say about factionalism within the Republican Party: "The mainstream ...