Book description
Essential reading for cybersecurity professionals, security analysts, policy experts, decision-makers, activists, and law enforcement!
During the Arab Spring movements, the world witnessed the power of social media to dramatically shape events. Now this timely book shows government decision-makers, security analysts, and activists how to use the social world to improve security locally, nationally, and globally--and cost-effectively. Authored by two technology/behavior/security professionals, Using Social Media for Global Security offers pages of instruction and detail on cutting-edge social media technologies, analyzing social media data, and building crowdsourcing platforms.
The book teaches how to collect social media data and analyze it to map the social networks of terrorists and sex traffickers, and forecast attacks and famines. You will learn how to coalesce communities through social media to help catch murderers, coordinate disaster relief, and collect intelligence about drug smuggling from hard-to-reach areas. Also highlighting dramatic case studies drawn from the headlines, this crucial book is a must-read.
Illustrates linguistic, correlative, and network analysis of OSINT
Examines using crowdsourcing technologies to work and engage with populations globally to solve security problems
Explores how to ethically deal with social media data without compromising people's rights to privacy and freedom of expression
Shows activists fighting against oppressive regimes how they can protect their identities online
If you're responsible for maintaining local, national or global security, you'll want to read Using Social Media for Global Security.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Part I: Understanding the Influence of Social Media Globally
- Part II: Analyzing Social Media Data to Solve Security Problems
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Part III: Crowdsourcing Intelligence, Solutions, and Influence
- Chapter 7: Introduction to Crowdsourcing
- Chapter 8: Building and Running Crowdsourcing Platforms
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Chapter 9: Crowdsourcing Intelligence
- Understanding the Scope of Crowdsourced Intelligence
- Appreciating the Limits of Crowdsourcing Intelligence
- Tweaking the Process for Intelligence Collection Platforms
- Collect Intelligence from Hard-to-Reach Areas through SMS
- Collect Intelligence from the Community for Law Enforcement
- Collect Intelligence to Bolster Disaster Relief
- Summary
- Notes
- Chapter 10: Crowdsourcing Solutions
- Chapter 11: Influencing Crowds
- Part IV: Broadening Your Horizon
- Appendix: Extra Information and Resources
- Introduction
Product information
- Title: Using Social Media for Global Security
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2013
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781118442319
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