Overview
- Analyzes privacy concerns and social media impact on teenagers’ mental health and safety
- Examines how ubiquitous social media platforms have enabled the proliferation of misinformation that interfered with politics and culminated in the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021
- Discusses the pros and cons of Total Information Awareness and Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks on government data mining projects
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Prologue
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Privacy in the Age of Big Data
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Business Intelligence in Social Media
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Total Information Awareness in Facebook Nation
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About this book
With more than three billion monthly active users, Facebook family of apps is by far the world's largest social network. Facebook as a nation is bigger than the top three most populous countries in the world: China, India, and the United States. Social media has enabled its users to inform and misinform the public, to appease and disrupt Wall Street, to mitigate and exacerbate the COVID-19 pandemic, and to unite and divide a country.
Mark Zuckerberg once said, "We exist at the intersection of technology and social issues." He should have heeded his own words. In October 2021, former Facebook manager-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen testified at the U.S. Senate that Facebook's products "harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy."
This book offers discourse and practical advice on information and misinformation, cybersecurity and privacy issues, cryptocurrency and business intelligence, social media marketing and caveats, e-government and e-activism, as well as the pros and cons of total information awareness including the Edward Snowden leaks.
"Highly recommended." - T. D. Richardson, Choice Magazine
"A great book for social media experts." - Will M., AdWeek
"Parents in particular would be well advised to make this book compulsory reading for their teenage children..." - David B. Henderson, ACM Computing Reviews
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Prof. Newton Lee is the founding president of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships based in Los Angeles, California and a 2021 graduate of the FBI Citizens Academy.
Lee was the founder of Disney Online Technology Forum, creator of AT&T Bell Labs' first-ever commercial artificial intelligence tool, inventor of the world's first annotated multimedia OPAC for the U.S. National Agricultural Library, developer of an AI Expert System for counterterrorism at the Institute for Defense Analyses, designer of an AI Expert System in pharmacology and drug interactions at Virginia Tech, and the longest serving editor-in-chief in the history of the Association for Computing Machinery for its publication Computers in Entertainment (2003–2018).
He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Virginia Tech with a B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer Science (specializing in Artificial Intelligence), and he earned a perfect GPA from Vincennes University with an A.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and an honorary doctorate in Computer Science.
Lee has lectured at Emily Carr University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Simon Fraser University, University of Southern California, Vincennes University, and Woodbury University. He has been honored with a Michigan Leading Edge Technologies Award, two community development awards from the California Junior Chamber of Commerce, and four volunteer project leadership awards from The Walt Disney Company.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Facebook Nation
Book Subtitle: Total Information Awareness
Authors: Newton Lee
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1867-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-0716-1866-0
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-0716-1869-1
eBook ISBN: 978-1-0716-1867-7
Edition Number: 3
Number of Pages: X, 571
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 110 illustrations in colour
Topics: Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Multimedia Information Systems, Management of Computing and Information Systems