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.

Learn how to investigate people of interest through open, public sources like Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and more

About the Author
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

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



Book Information
ISBN 9780128016565
Author Jennifer Golbeck
Format Paperback
Page Count 306
Imprint Syngress Media,U.S.
Publisher Syngress Media,U.S.
Weight(grams) 630g