Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness / Edition 2

by Newton Lee

Overview

Facebook's psychological experiments and Edward Snowden's NSA leaks epitomize a world of increasing information awareness in the social media ecosystem. With over a billion monthly active users, Facebook as a nation is overtaking China as the largest country in the world. President Barack Obama, in his 2011 State of the Union Address, called America "the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers" and "of Google and Facebook." U.S. Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel opines that America has become a "Facebook nation" that demands increased transparency and interactivity from the federal government.

Ubiquitous social networks such as Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and YouTube are creating the technologies, infrastructures, and big data necessary for Total Information Awareness - a controversial surveillance program proposed by DARPA after the 9/11 attacks. NSA's secret PRISM program has reinvigorated WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's accusation that "Facebook is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented."

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg once said, "We exist at the intersection of technology and social issues." This book offers discourse and practical advice on the privacy issue in the age of big data, business intelligence in social media, e-government and e-activism, as well as personal total information awareness. This expanded edition also includes insights from Wikipedian Emily Temple-Wood and Facebook ROI experts Dennis Yu and Alex Houg.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493944750
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	09/10/2016
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2014
Pages:	412
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Newton Lee is CEO of Newton Lee Laboratories LLC, president of the Institute for Education, Research, and Scholarships, adjunct professor at Woodbury University's School of Media, Culture & Design, and editor-in-chief of ACM Computers in Entertainment. Previously, he was a computer scientist at AT&T Bell Laboratories, senior producer and engineer at The Walt Disney Company, and research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses. Lee graduated Summa Cum Laude from Virginia Tech with a B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer Science, and he earned a perfect GPA from Vincennes University with an A.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and an honorary doctorate in Computer Science. He is the co-author of Disney Stories: Getting to Digital; author of the Total Information Awareness book series including Facebook Nation and Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity; coauthor/editor of the Digital Da Vinci book series including Computers in Music and Computers in the Arts and Sciences; and editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games.

Table of Contents

PART I: PROLOGUE.- Chapter 1: From 1984 to Total Information Awareness.- PART II: PRIVACY IN THE AGE OF BIG DATA.- Chapter 2: Social Networks and Privacy.- Chapter 3: Smartphones and Privacy.- Chapter 4: Privacy Breaches.- PART III: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE IN SOCIAL MEDIA.- Chapter 5: Business Intelligence.- Chapter 6: Facebook Analytics, Advertising, and Marketing.- Chapter 7: How to Become an Influencer and Make Money on Instagram.- Chapter 8: Consumer Privacy in the Age of Big Data.- PART IV: THE RISE OF FACEBOOK NATION.- Chapter 9: Twitter – a World of Immediacy.- Chapter 10: Misinformation, Disinformation, and Fake News.- Chapter 11: Wikipedia and the New Web.- Chapter 12: E-Government and E-Activism.- Chapter 13: A Multi-Criteria Approach to Analysing E-Democracy Support Systems.- Chapter 14: A Ranking Model for Citizen Engagement in a Smart City.- PART V: TOTAL INFORMATION AWARENESS IN FACEBOOK NATION.- Chapter 15: Generation C in the Age of Big Data.- Chapter16: Living in Facebook Nation.- Chapter 17: Personal Privacy and Information Management.- Chapter 18: Total Information Awareness in Society.- PART VI: EPILOGUE.- Chapter 19: From Total Information Awareness to 1984.- Index.

Editorial Reviews

Lee looks into the era of total information awareness in which we now find ourselves, and discusses in detail the implications for our society and our individual privacy. …This is a very well-researched book and to say that each chapter ends with an extensive list of references … . book is very current and easy to read. Parents in particular would be well advised to make this book compulsory reading for their teenage children before allowing them to go online.” (David B. Henderson, Computing Reviews, June, 2015)

From the Publisher

★ 08/01/2015
Analyzes total information collection in a Web 2.0 social media environ, the myriad tools designed to parse that information, and the politics/policies that mediate this information collection.

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