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Open Source Intelligence and Cyber Crime

Social Media Analytics

  • Includes research results with important implications for law enforcement agencies and intelligence services
  • Provides graduate students with the fundamental research problems of the social media and open source intelligence field
  • Introduces real-world datasets and presents recent trends in this active research area

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Social Networks (LNSN)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
  2. Protecting the Web from Misinformation

    • Francesca Spezzano, Indhumathi Gurunathan
    Pages 1-27
  3. Studying the Weaponization of Social Media: Case Studies of Anti-NATO Disinformation Campaigns

    • Katrin Galeano, Rick Galeano, Samer Al-Khateeb, Nitin Agarwal
    Pages 29-51
  4. Inferring Systemic Nets with Applications to Islamist Forums

    • David B. Skillicorn, N. Alsadhan
    Pages 113-140
  5. Twitter Bots and the Swedish Election

    • Johan Fernquist, Lisa Kaati, Ralph Schroeder, Nazar Akrami, Katie Cohen
    Pages 141-163
  6. Cognitively-Inspired Inference for Malware Task Identification

    • Eric Nunes, Casey Buto, Paulo Shakarian, Christian Lebiere, Stefano Bennati, Robert Thomson
    Pages 165-194
  7. Social Media for Mental Health: Data, Methods, and Findings

    • Nur Shazwani Kamarudin, Ghazaleh Beigi, Lydia Manikonda, Huan Liu
    Pages 195-220
  8. Automated Text Analysis for Intelligence Purposes: A Psychological Operations Case Study

    • Stefan Varga, Joel Brynielsson, Andreas Horndahl, Magnus Rosell
    Pages 221-251Open Access

About this book

This book shows how open source intelligence can be a powerful tool for combating crime by linking local and global patterns to help understand how criminal activities are connected. Readers will encounter the latest advances in cutting-edge data mining, machine learning and predictive analytics combined with natural language processing and social network analysis to detect, disrupt, and neutralize cyber and physical threats. Chapters contain state-of-the-art social media analytics and open source intelligence research trends. This multidisciplinary volume will appeal to students, researchers, and professionals working in the fields of open source intelligence, cyber crime and social network analytics.

 Chapter Automated Text Analysis for Intelligence Purposes: A Psychological Operations Case Study is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

    Mohammad A. Tayebi, Uwe Glässer

  • School of Computing, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada

    David B. Skillicorn

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Softcover Book USD 89.99
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Hardcover Book USD 119.99
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