Using social media for global security

Essential reading for cyber-security 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/behaviour/security professionals, Using Social Media for Global Security offers pages of instruction and detail on cutting-edge social media technologies, analysing social media data, and building crowd sourcing platforms. The book teaches how to collect social media data and analyse 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.

Part I Understanding the influence of social media globally -- ch. 1 Understanding social media's impact on global security -- ch. 2. Understaning global social media use -- Part II Analyzing social media data to solve security problems -- ch. 3 Introduction to social media analytics -- ch. 4 Collecting and managing social media data -- ch. 5 Mapping and analyzing social networks -- ch. 6 Understanding and forecasting events -- Part III Crowdsourcing intelligence, solutions, and influence -- ch. 7 Introduction to crowdsourcing -- ch. 8 Building and running crowdsourcing platforms -- ch. 9 Crowdsourcing intelligence -- ch. 10 Crowdsourcing solutions -- ch. 11 Influencing crowds -- Part IV Broadening your horizon -- ch. 12 Advanced and emerging analytical methodologies -- ch. 13 Delivering services through crowdsourcing -- ch. 14 Protecting privacy and yourself.