# DARPA SMISC **Entity class:** Defense research program **Aliases:** Social Media in Strategic Communication **Maturity:** Historical ## Definition **Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC)** was a DARPA research program initiated in 2011 to develop science for detecting, classifying, measuring, and influencing the formation and spread of ideas and purposeful messaging in social media. ## Relationships - **agency:** DARPA. - **research domain:** [[wiki/Memetic Theory|Memetic Theory]], [[wiki/Information Operations|Information Operations]], and [[wiki/SOCMINT|SOCMINT]]. - **counterterrorism context:** [[wiki/Cognitive Security|Cognitive Security]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/A Network-Epidemiological Analysis of Radicalization and Real-Time Counterterrorism Observability|Network-Epidemiological Analysis]]