Spookipedia: intelligence, social media and biopolitics

Werbin, Kenneth C.

doi:10.1177/0163443711418741

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“…The recent case of WikiLeaks exemplifies our argument. Then again, there is increased governmental control and associated risks with the use of social and mobile media (Fuchs et al, 2013;Lips, 2013;Zajácz, 2013) since intelligence has been partly reinvented through social media (Werbin, 2011), as the National Security Agency (NSA) scandal has most recently brought to our attention.…”

Section: Risks As Eventsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Media events, spectacles and risky globalization: a critical review and possible avenues for future research

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Rantanen

2014

Media, Culture & Society

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We review the research conducted to date on media events and media spectacles. We posit that the main phenomena challenging the current conceptualizations of media event and media spectacle are (1) the understanding of risk, (2) the context of disasters and (3) globalization and the mediation of news in the context of transnational and transitional societies. We suggest that more research on disruptive events is needed. In the context of the new media landscape in particular, the ritual researcher may need to take into account the concepts of temporality and unpredictability as inherent features of media events and rituals – the traumatic events researcher may benefit from the concept of global risk society. Finally, we argue that more research needs to be carried out on transitional societies, as we need to learn more about the role of mediation, events and spectacles in democratization processes and in contemporary revolutions. Overall, our findings indicate that in the context of global risk society, constant disruptions and unplanned events, together with the changes in news transmission, need to be taken as a starting point also in the research frames used to understand the mediation of events in contemporary society.

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Section: Risks As Eventsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Media events, spectacles and risky globalization: a critical review and possible avenues for future research

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Rantanen

2014

Media, Culture & Society

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“…Whether the compulsive collection of data by Google or other commercial operators constitutes a treasure trove which will allow corporations to service their customers more effi ciently or transforms audiences into marketable commodities remains a contentious issue (van Dijk 2009). Similarly, whether governmental collection of data on everything from medical records to social media use constitutes an advance towards more individualised health and social services or an instrument for social control continues to provoke controversy (Werbin 2011). These diff erences of approach, in the end, boil down to a normative argument over the relative merits of, and the ways to achieve a balance between, liberty and effi ciency, upon which there can, quite legitimately, be major diff erences of opinion.…”

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What is the “Digital Divide” and why is it Important?

Sparks

2013

Javnost - The Public

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This article begins with a consideration of the diff erent meanings that have been given to the digital divide, and to the normative concerns that researchers have brought to its investigation. It then examines three major traditions of research into the subject: that which stresses issues of physical access; that which adds to the discussion of technical availability a stress upon some of the cultural competences and skills necessary to utilise the technologies fully; and a third which examines situations in which technical availability is almost universal but in which social and cultural factors play a determinant role in the kinds of usage adopted. Building upon the existing state of knowledge, the article goes on to consider its implications both for future research and for the kinds of policies which might be adopted to address the problems of social inclusion today and in the future.

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“…Another type of security cyber intelligence (SCI) from social media websites is analyzing situations with citizen-driven information processing through Twitter services using data from social crises: the Mumbai terrorist attacks in 2008 [39], the Toyota recall in 2010, and the Seattle café shooting incident in 2012 [40] or G20 protests in Toronto in June of 2010 [41]. As part of the focus on transparency, the Obama administration emphasized the use of e-government and new social media services to open up access to government and challenges in social media and e-government have been examined in the US government [42][43][44].…”

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Data analysis through social media according to the classified crime

Topaloğlu¹

2019

Turk J Elec Eng & Comp Sci

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The amount and variety of data generated through social media sites has increased along with the widespread use of social media sites. In addition, the data production rate has increased in the same way. The inclusion of personal information within these data makes it important to process the data and reach meaningful information within it. This process can be called intelligence and this meaningful information may be for commercial, academic, or security purposes.An example application is developed in this study for intelligence on Twitter. Crimes in Turkey are classified according to Turkish Statistical Institute criminal data and keywords are defined according to this data. A total of 150,000 tweet data in the Turkish language are collected from Twitter between specified dates and processed by Turkish Zemberek natural language processing. It is seen that 56% of the people are talking about terrorist attacks and bombing attacks on the study dates. The words "bomb," "terror," "attack," "organization", and "explode" have percentages of 24%, 12%, 8%, 6%, and 6%, respectively. Moreover, associations between words and situations are found. Correlations are important to create new subclusters like "terror" and "rape" in this study with 0.90 correlation. Bigger masses can be accessible by expanding keyword groups to have a clear picture of the real situation.

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Spookipedia: intelligence, social media and biopolitics

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

Media events, spectacles and risky globalization: a critical review and possible avenues for future research

Media events, spectacles and risky globalization: a critical review and possible avenues for future research

What is the “Digital Divide” and why is it Important?

Data analysis through social media according to the classified crime

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