{"id":71,"date":"2005-02-23T03:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opendna.com\/?p=71"},"modified":"2022-11-08T12:53:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T12:53:20","slug":"theory-teen-sex-and-homeland-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/23\/theory-teen-sex-and-homeland-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Theory: teen sex and homeland security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.stephensonstrategies.com\/\">David Stephenson<\/a>&#8217;s blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]here&#8217;s an important new study on networking behavior from the Ohio State Research Foundation with implications for a many strategies, including my &#8220;smart mobs for homeland security&#8221; one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As reported in the American Journal of Sociology. a team of sociologists [&#8230;] mapped the romantic and sexual relationships at a Midwestern high school over an 18-month period.<\/p>\n<p>The map showed fundamental differences from adult sexual networks, which tend to radiate from a few sexually-active individuals (such as the role of adult sexual networks, which tend to radiate from a few sexually-active individuals (such as the role of sex workers and truckers in the spread of AIDS) but also from &#8220;maps&#8221; of technology networks such as the one of the Internet that shows a great deal of clustering around a few key nodes  (see Barabasi&#8217;s work on 19 degrees of separation  for web pages) that makes  some networks vulnerable to failure.  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.stephensonstrategies.com\/2005\/02\/02.html#a255\">full link<\/a>]I&#8217;m not too up on the role of network mapping for public health purposes, but I&#8217;ve got to say that the [1] the topographical differences (see sources) between teens and adults is interesting, and [2] that&#8217;s some cool software they&#8217;re using.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to do a research project on US immigration patterns with that app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From David Stephenson&#8217;s blog: [T]here&#8217;s an important new study on networking behavior from the Ohio State Research Foundation with implications for a many strategies, including my &#8220;smart mobs for homeland security&#8221; one. As reported in the American Journal of Sociology. a team of sociologists [&#8230;] mapped the romantic and sexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,218],"tags":[20,44],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek-out","category-politics","tag-immigration","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1908,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opendna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}