
540 Analyzing and Securing Social Networks
40.3 DIRECTIONS FOR ANALYZING AND SECURING SOCIAL MEDIA
There are many directions for social media analytics as well as for social media security. We dis-
cuss some of them for the topics addressed in this book. Figure 40.2 illustrates the directions and
challenges.
As discussed in Chapter 6, in the area of social media analytics, several problems are being
studied. These include extracting demographics (including location), sentiment analysis, detecting
communities of interest, determining leaders, detecting persons of interest, determining political
afliation, as well as other aspects such as deter ...