
Facebook Nation
Total Information Awareness
Newton Lee(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 1. December 2014
Book
Hardback
XV, 412 pages
978-1-4939-1739-6 (ISBN)
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Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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)
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Edition
2nd ed. 2014
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
2 s/w Abbildungen, 34 farbige Abbildungen
XV, 412 p. 36 illus., 34 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
7627 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4939-1739-6 (9781493917396)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4939-1740-2
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Person
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.
Content
From 1984 to Total Information Awareness.- Social Networks and Privacy.- Smartphones and Privacy.- Privacy Breaches.- Business Intelligence.- Facebook Analytics, Advertising, and Marketing.- Consumer Privacy in the Age of Big Data.- Twitter- a World of Immediacy.- Misinformation and Disinformation.- Wikipedia and the New Web.- E-Government and E-Activism.- Generation C in the Age of Big Data.- Living in Facebook Nation.- Personal Privacy and Information Management.- Personal Total Information Awareness.- From Total Information Awareness to 1984.