Introduction to Social Media Investigation

If you're interested in using social media as an investigative tool, Introduction to Social Media Investigation will show you how! Social networks and social media, like Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare, are some of the most popular services on the Web, with hundreds of millions of users. The public information that people share on these sites can be valuable for anyone interested in investigating people of interest through open, public sources.

Social media as an investigative device is in its infancy and not well understood. This book presents an overview of social media and discusses special skills and techniques to use when conducting investigations. The book features hands-on tutorials and case studies and offers additional data-gathering techniques.

Autorentext

Jennifer Golbeck Ph.D Is an Associate Professor in the College of Information Studies and Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interests include social network and social media analysis, recommender systems, trust on the web, human computer interaction and and how to use social relationships to improve the way people interact with information. She was named as one of IEEE Intelligent System's "Top Ten to Watch", is a Research Fellow in the Web Science Research Initiative and is a sought after speaker on social media

Klappentext

If you're interested in using social media as an investigative tool, Introduction to Social Media Investigation will show you how! Social networks and social media, like Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare, are some of the most popular services on the Web, with hundreds of millions of users. The public information that people share on these sites can be valuable for anyone interested in investigating people of interest through open, public sources. . Social media as an investigative device is in its infancy and not well understood. This book presents an overview of social media and discusses special skills and techniques to use when conducting investigations. The book features hands-on tutorials and case studies and offers additional data-gathering techniques.

Zusammenfassung
"An introductory survey of social media sites, combined with a generalized approach to analytic tools and metadata, is presented in this book." --Computing Reviews

Inhalt

Section I: Introduction

1. Introduction
2. The Basics of Social Media
   Section II Techniques
3. Social Connections
4. Privacy Settings
5. Finding People on Social Media
6. Types of Personal Information
7. Location
   Section III: Major Social Networking Sites
   Hands-on tutorials, with case studies demonstrating how to apply the above techniques to specific sites.
8. Facebook
9. Twitter
10. FourSquare
11. Pinterest
12. LinkedIn
13. Google+
14. Tumblr
15. Instagram
16. YouTube
    Section IV: Smaller Sites
17. Forums / Question Answering
18. Networking sites
19. Image and video sharing
    Section V: Getting More Data
20. Apps and API access
21. Crowd sourcing
22. Inferring traits from profiles
23. Ensemble Learners
24. Getting Started with RapidMiner