[Air-L] [REQUEST] What are internet research's iconic diagrams?

Robert Ackland robert.ackland at anu.edu.au
Sat Aug 27 17:41:05 PDT 2016


The "Divided They Blog" network map of US political bloggers in 2004:

Adamic, L. and Glance, N. (2005). The political blogosphere and the 2004 
U.S. election: Divided they blog. In Proceedings of the 3rd 
International Workshop on Link  Discovery (LINKDD 2005), pages 6–43.

The "Web is a Bow Tie" diagram:

Broder, A., Kumar, R., Maghoul, F., Raghavan, P., Rajagopalan, S., 
Stata, R., Tomkins, A. and Wiener, J. (2000). Graph structure in the 
web. Computer Networks, 33(1-6), 309-320.


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Dr Robert Ackland
Associate Professor, School of Sociology and ANU Centre for Social 
Research and Methods
Leader, Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON) Lab 
<http://vosonlab.net>
Australian National University



On 28/08/16 06:24, Alex Leavitt wrote:
> If you were to pick a handful of the most iconic diagrams across internet
> research, theory, and history, what would they be?
>
> I'm trying to compile as many diagrams as possible. They could also be
> graphs, charts, photographs, drawings, etc. They could come from sociology,
> anthropology, computer science, physics, etc. They could also relate to
> social theories that are particularly prescient for internet studies.
>
> For example, I think the diagram of distributed networks in Paul Baran's
> 1964 "On Distributed Communications" (
> http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memoranda/2006/RM3420.pdf,
> diagram on p. 16 of the PDF) is a great example of what I'm looking for.
>
> For another example in the theoretical realm, perhaps the "two-step flow"
> model from Katz & Lazarfeld's 1955 Personal Influence (
> https://www.utwente.nl/cw/theorieenoverzicht/Theory%20Clusters/Mass%20Media/Two_Step_Flow_Theory-1/,
> scroll down for the diagram).
>
> Does anyone else have pointers to any other iconic diagrams?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
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> Alexander Leavitt, Ph.D.
> USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
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