Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness / Edition 2

by Newton Lee

Overview

This book explores total information awareness empowered by social media. At the FBI Citizens Academy in February 2021, I asked the FBI about the January 6 Capitol riot organized on social media that led to the unprecedented ban of a sitting U.S. President by all major social networks. In March 2021, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appeared before Congress to face criticism about their handling of misinformation and online extremism that culminated in the storming of Capitol Hill.

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, crypurrency 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

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

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.

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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