{"id":4121,"date":"2003-01-14T17:16:41","date_gmt":"2003-01-14T17:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4121"},"modified":"2003-01-14T17:16:41","modified_gmt":"2003-01-14T17:16:41","slug":"relationship-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=4121","title":{"rendered":"relationship mapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of a hectic and bleary day, I participated in a conference<\/p>\n<p>call for members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deliberative-democracy.net\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peterlevine.ws\/images\/ddc_logo.GIF\" width=\"164\" height=\"33\" border=\"0\"><\/a>steering<\/p>\n<p>committee. I proposed an idea that seemed to get a lot of support. Sociologists<\/p>\n<p>sometimes survey individuals or organizations, asking them with whom they<\/p>\n<p>interact most. They create a database showing all the individuals and<\/p>\n<p>their mutual relations. They then use<a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.ucr.edu\/%7Ehanneman\/SOC157\/Software\/Downloadindex.html\"><\/p>\n<p>&quot;relationship-mapping&quot; software<\/a> to spit out maps that cluster<\/p>\n<p>all the most closely related individuals together and use lines to show<\/p>\n<p>how they are linked. If we did this to all the groups involved in the<\/p>\n<p>field of deliberative democracy, then we could see which ones work together,<\/p>\n<p>which ones are completely separate, and which organizations serve as bridges<\/p>\n<p>between clusters of groups. This is the kind of analysis that political<\/p>\n<p>organizers have always used; software can help to do it more easily and<\/p>\n<p>thoroughly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of a hectic and bleary day, I participated in a conference call for members of the steering committee. I proposed an idea that seemed to get a lot of support. Sociologists sometimes survey individuals or organizations, asking them with whom they interact most. They create a database showing all the individuals and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deliberation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}