Social Media Intelligence

Recent years have made Twitter a popular tool for conducting research aimed at exploring and anticipating political and social phenomena. This study attempts to understand online discourse of women's protests, which burst in Poland in October 2020. Research was focused on the most popular hashtag: #strajkkobiet (women's strike) within nearly 400k tweets. This task was accomplished through standardised text mining techniques. The findings on Twitter showed that the protests were in majority of cases a fight against somebody, rather than a struggle for something. The discourse was based on negative emotions, and often on hatred and contempt directed at the current state authorities and associated institutions. Substantive discussion was barely noticeable. The communication was carried out mainly by civic circles, not opposition politicians nor the media.

אחת הבעיות המרכזיות בתהליך אחזור מידע מתעוררת בשלב של בחינת רשימת התשובות ע"י המשתמש. רוב מנועי החיפוש כיום מציגים את התשובות ברשימה רציפה, המדורגת על פי מידת הקירבה של התשובות לערכי שאילתת החיפוש. רמת הדרוג הנמוכה של המנועים, בשילוב עם הצגת הרשימה הרצופה, מקשה על המשתמש לאתר את המידע הרלבנטי שחיפש. מלבד מספר התשובות הגדול שקרוב לוודאי התקבל כמענה לחיפוש, המסמכים ברשימה אינם מופיעים עפ"י סדר נושאי כלשהו, ולפיכך תהליך ניפוי התשובות הופך למסורבל. התהליך קשה עוד יותר כשמדובר במשימות חיפוש מחקריות, בהן יש יותר ממסמך אחד רלבנטי, ובהן נדרשת הבנה נרחבת של התוצאות ברשימה. המאמר מציג מחקר אחרון בסדרה של מחקרים שמטרתם איתור מרכיבי המידע הנחוצים ביותר, מתוך רשימת תוצאות חיפוש, כדי לסייע למשתמש בקבלת החלטה איכותית ונוחה לגבי אלו מתוך מסמכי רשימת התוצאות כוללים בתוכם את התוצאה המבוקשת למשימת החיפוש.

OSINT (Open Source Intelligence), as a field of information gathering from open sources, is unintentionally pervasive in our lives. Its various methods make an indispensable contribution, not only to the work of individuals, but also to that of economic actors and even public organisations, including government bodies, responsible for security. However, their application also presents a number of advantages, but also a number of disadvantages. It has evolved beyond the use of traditional open sources and is closely linked to cyberspace and the various ICT solutions based on it. At the same time, their spread and their dynamic changes have a direct impact on OSINT methods. Taking into account the changes, caused by the effects of continuous development, the paper aims at reflecting on the boundaries of open source information gathering as a category.

As technology-mediated innovations like Mobile Learning Devices (MLDs) spread rapidly across the globe, there are growing concerns on the actual factors that influence students in Higher Educational institutions (HEIs) to accept technology-mediated innovations like smartphones, tablets, and portable computing devices for their educational pursuit. This study adopted Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as a theoretical basis in an attempt to investigate factors that might influence students to accept or decline the use of technology-mediated innovations specifically MLDs for academic purposes from the perspectives of three universities in Ghana. A set of online questionnaire survey was used to collect the needed data from (N=1,030) students. The researchers also conducted data analysis and presentation of findings by testing the suggested research model through Structural Equation Modelling. A regression analysis was also carried out with the help of SmartPLS to assess the path coefficient of the data collected for the model. This study identified influencing factors such as students' awareness levels, m-learning technology types, perceived ease of use, and perceived usefulness as some of the central factors that determine how students use and accept m-learning devices in Ghanaian universities. The study reported limitations such as expensive internet data, poor internet infrastructure, insecurity, privacy issues, and unavailability of electricity as some of the factors limiting the acceptance of MLDs by students in Ghana. Despite the limitations reported in this study, the results from the statistical analysis, show that there are high levels of MLDs acceptance among students from the three sampled higher educational institutions in Ghana. The study recommends that school authorities and governments in developing countries such as Ghana incorporate MLDs in their current higher educational systems.

The study aimed to examine and demonstrate how organisational culture and commitment to employee performance, whether directly or indirectly, affect job performance. A questionnaire was used to collect the data. 127 employees made up the research samples. Descriptive analysis was used in the study to identify each variable indicator's characteristic and respondent description. While utilising inferential analysis with the Partial Least Square (PLS) method and Sobel Test to test the relationship between variables. The findings demonstrated that organisational culture has no direct bearing on employee performance. Organizational culture can affect performance if job satisfaction acts as a mediator.While work satisfaction has a significant indirect or direct impact on employee performance due to organisational commitment.

Easy and relatively unrestricted access to the Internet has introduced numerous transformations in the way individuals interact with each other and their environment. Prominent among these changes are those related to communication studies and its substrata of propaganda. A large number of studies, which have analyzed the online terrorist propaganda activities, discuss the issue within the framework of how the terrorists "use" or "exploit" new media technologies for their purposes. What is strongly highlighted in these studies is the instrumental role of the Internet in facilitating the success of terrorist propaganda. In contrast to this standard view of social media and Internet as a medium of communication, drawing from Science and Technology Studies, we offer an alternative perspective of human and technical actors as being mutually intertwined and equally possessed of agency in the process of propagandistic communications. Thus, this study discusses how Internet has facilitated sweeping changes across the entire spectrum of propaganda, ranging from production and dissemination to reception. The online propaganda and counterpropaganda campaigns currently being waged online by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the US State Department are presented and contrasted as examples of the old and new models of propaganda.

Competitive Intelligence (CI) has long grappled with the absence of a universally accepted definition, resulting in polysemy and synonymy issues that hinder its progress. This article explores the ramifications of this lack of consensus, emphasizing its impact on CI practitioners, educators, researchers, and the ever-so-critical Body of Knowledge (BoK). Drawing upon extensive research and AI-driven analysis, a high-level definition of CI is provided founded on five core dimensions: Purpose, Purview, Practices, Process, and Product (the 5Ps). This comprehensive definition not only resolves the ambiguity surrounding CI but also facilitates the clear delineation of related concepts such as Market Intelligence, Business Intelligence, and Competitor Intelligence. Empirically validated by an extensive cohort of subject matter experts, this definition heralds a new era of Scientific CI, offering a robust foundation for CI practitioners to help organizations navigate the challenges of an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world.

In this paper we provide a foundation for a new generation of services and tools. We define new ways of capturing, sharing and reusing information and intelligence provided by single users and communities, as well as organizations by enabling the extraction, generation, interpretation and management of Collective Intelligence from user generated digital multimedia content. Different layers of intelligence are generated, which together constitute the notion of Collective Intelligence. The automatic generation of Collective Intelligence constitutes a departure from traditional methods for information sharing, since information from both the multimedia content and social aspects will be merged, while at the same time the social dynamics will be taken into account. In the context of this work, we present two case studies: an Emergency Response and a Consumers Social Group case study.

Durante muchos años Google ha sido reconocido como sinónimo de renovación por su carácter proactivo, por mantenerse siempre a la vanguardia en la introducción de nuevas tecnologías y aplicaciones.

El motor de búsqueda proyectó a Google hasta convertirla en una de las tres marcas más valiosas en el mundo, como destacan los reportes que anualmente realizan las firmas Kantar e Interbrand sobre las marcas más valiosas.

Sin embargo, en años recientes la actitud de Google parece haber cambiado.

Disfrutar durante tantos años de una posición preponderante entre los motores de búsqueda parece haberle instalado a Google en un acentuado conformismo.

Higher Education institutions (HEIs) exist within technological and social contexts worldwide. Universities have invested in technology and built the capacities of their staff for the improvement of faculty scholarship. Social media platforms such as social media that were initially designed and used for social interactions now have a considerable stake in higher education. University faculty members use social media platforms in their academic research. This study investigates the motivations for social media platform usage by university faculty members in Ghanaian universities and how the user can affect their academic productivity. This study adopted online questionnaires to collect the needed data from university faculty members. To have closer insights into the study’s subject matter. The researcher investigated the issue from 301 university lecturers, 5 randomly selected universities and 13 academic departments. Some key findings of this study indicate that the specific social...

As technology-mediated innovations like Mobile Learning Devices (MLDs) spread rapidly across the globe, there are growing concerns on the actual factors that influence students in Higher Educational institutions (HEIs) to accept technology-mediated innovations like smartphones, tablets, and portable computing devices for their educational pursuit. This study adopted Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as a theoretical basis in an attempt to investigate factors that might influence students to accept or decline the use of technology-mediated innovations specifically MLDs for academic purposes from the perspectives of three universities in Ghana. A set of online questionnaire survey was used to collect the needed data from (N=1,030) students. The researchers also conducted data analysis and presentation of findings by testing the suggested research model through Structural Equation Modelling. A regression analysis was also carried out with the help of SmartPLS to assess the path coefficient of the data collected for the model. This study identified influencing factors such as students' awareness levels, m-learning technology types, perceived ease of use, and perceived usefulness as some of the central factors that determine how students use and accept m-learning devices in Ghanaian universities. The study reported limitations such as expensive internet data, poor internet infrastructure, insecurity, privacy issues, and unavailability of electricity as some of the factors limiting the acceptance of MLDs by students in Ghana. Despite the limitations reported in this study, the results from the statistical analysis, show that there are high levels of MLDs acceptance among students from the three sampled higher educational institutions in Ghana. The study recommends that school authorities and governments in developing countries such as Ghana incorporate MLDs in their current higher educational systems.

El trabajo que se presenta a continuación pretende ser una ayuda para el profesorado de inglés no familiarizado con Internet. Se explican los tipos de buscadores que hay, cómo se utilizan, qué palabras clave conducen a un buen material y qué tipo de material se puede encontrar.

Buscando el por qué 1 Ing. de Sistemas y Computación, Consultor en desarrollo, soporte y certificación de sistemas. Técnicas de análisis forense digital aplicadas a dispositivos y sistemas móviles A brief explanation on digital forensic techniques over mobile devices and systems Apunt. cienc. soc. 2011; 01(02)

This article examines the intersection of Big Data and strategic intelligence from a theoretical-conceptual viewpoint. Adopting Popperian refutation as a starting point, it approaches methodological issues surrounding the incorporation of Big Data into the intelligence cycle, and argues that Big Data analytics is best used to discern long-term developments, generate intelligence hypotheses, and adduce refuting facts. The article then briefly examines the use of Big Data via social media, an increasingly fertile platform for intelligence analysis. Finally, the article argues that despite its potential in filling our epistemic gaps, Big Data should continue to complement traditional subject-matter expertise, supported by game theory, as part of a tripartite analytical framework for strategic intelligence consisting of 'subtext', 'context' and 'metatext'. In this respect, Big Data may well become the midwife for more open modes of intelligence management and, ultimately, a more open society.

Sumario 1. Introducción 2. ¿Cuántas internets existen? 2.1. Comunicación 2.2. Información 2.3. Actividades fraudulentas de compra-venta y servicios 2.3.1. Hacking 2.3.2. Narcotráfico 2.3.3. Ciberocupas 2.3.4. Cibersexo 2.3.5. Paraísos fiscales e internet 2.3.6. Ciberestafas 3. Notas [1] Nota: Si tiene dificultades con el vocabulario técnico empleado en este artículo puede aclarar dudas en

Healthcare delivery in mental health sector is a critical duty that needs to be discharged carefully. The application of effective human resource management tools in mental health sector adopting newer techniques and procedures can improve the quality of the service offered to the mentally disabled patients. Organisational commitment is generally viewed as a topic of interest in the field of human resource management and industrial psychology bearing an important role in the study of organisational behaviour. This study was an attempt to assess the organisational commitment level of mental health professionals working in mental healthcare institutions of Kerala along with the effect of demographic factors on it. The data for the study was collected from a sample of one hundred and twenty mental health professionals working in public and private institutions in Kerala and the tool used to assess the organisational commitment was TCM Employee Commitment Survey. Results of the study in...

In this paper we provide a foundation for a new generation of services and tools. We define new ways of capturing, sharing and reusing information and intelligence provided by single users and communities, as well as organizations by enabling the extraction, generation, interpretation and management of Collective Intelligence from user generated digital multimedia content. Different layers of intelligence are generated, which together constitute the notion of Collective Intelligence. The automatic generation of Collective Intelligence constitutes a departure from traditional methods for information sharing, since information from both the multimedia content and social aspects will be merged, while at the same time the social dynamics will be taken into account. In the context of this work, we present two case studies: an Emergency Response and a Consumers Social Group case study.

ONLINE MEDIUM HAS BECOME INCREASINGLY IMPORTANT IN EVERYONE'S LIFE, WHETHER IT IS FOR PERSONAL, BUSINESS OR JUST FOR FUN. THE NUMBER OF INFORMATION CIRCULATING ON THE INTERNET IS HUGE, WHICH INCREASES FROM DAY TO DAY. AS A CONSEQUENCE THE NUMBER OF SITES HAS INCREASED AND THE NEED FOR EASIER COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PEOPLE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, TOOK BIRTH AND SOCIAL NETWORKS, ONLINE PLATFORMS THAT HAVE EMERGED PRECISELY FROM A DESIRE TO SHARE INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION AND SOCIALIZATION AMONG VARIOUS USERS. THEIR POPULARITY GREW IMMEDIATELY AND SITES LIKE FACEBOOK, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, GOOGLE+, YOUTUBE HAVE INCREASED THE NUMBER OF USERS FROM DAY TO DAY. DUE TO THE ADVANTAGES OF THE ONLINE, SUCH AS ANONYMITY AND DISSEMINATE INFORMATION IN A SHORT TIME AND ON A GLOBAL SCALE, MEMBERS OF TERRORIST GROUPS HAVE TURNED TO VIRTUAL, ONE NOT DEFINED BY PHYSICAL BORDERS AND OFFER THEM NOTORIETY THEY NEED. TERRORISTS HAVE CHOSEN SOCIAL NETWORKS IN PARTICULAR DUE TO THE NUMBER OF USERS, ENSURIN...

Los alumnos matriculados en una Formación Profesional Básica adaptada, requieren unas necesidades educativas específicas permanentes, por tanto la metodología aplicada en el aula debe ser elaborada específicamente de acuerdo a estas necesidades. Este artículo es un claro ejemplo de una ficha práctica con la que los alumnos comienzan a acercarse a lo que es Internet, partiendo de una de sus funcionalidades más importantes como es la búsqueda de información. Para ello se utilizará como buscador de referencia el buscador de Google, ya que es uno de los más conocidos y usados en la actualidad.Guided practice that allow students Basic FP Adapted know how searches are performed on Googl

As technology-mediated innovations like Mobile Learning Devices (MLDs) spread rapidly across the globe, there are growing concerns on the actual factors that influence students in Higher Educational institutions (HEIs) to accept technology-mediated innovations like smartphones, tablets, and portable computing devices for their educational pursuit. This study adopted Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as a theoretical basis in an attempt to investigate factors that might influence students to accept or decline the use of technology-mediated innovations specifically MLDs for academic purposes from the perspectives of three universities in Ghana. A set of online questionnaire survey was used to collect the needed data from (N=1,030) students. The researchers also conducted data analysis and presentation of findings by testing the suggested research model through Structural Equation Modelling. A regression analysis was also carried out with the help of SmartPLS to assess the path coefficient of the data collected for the model. This study identified influencing factors such as students' awareness levels, m-learning technology types, perceived ease of use, and perceived usefulness as some of the central factors that determine how students use and accept m-learning devices in Ghanaian universities. The study reported limitations such as expensive internet data, poor internet infrastructure, insecurity, privacy issues, and unavailability of electricity as some of the factors limiting the acceptance of MLDs by students in Ghana. Despite the limitations reported in this study, the results from the statistical analysis, show that there are high levels of MLDs acceptance among students from the three sampled higher educational institutions in Ghana. The study recommends that school authorities and governments in developing countries such as Ghana incorporate MLDs in their current higher educational systems.

Radical individual and organizations are setting strong foothold on Internet. They operate in dark network hidden from authorities view to pursuade, recruit, and coordinate radical and violent actions. The presence of radical individual and organizations onInternet sites have caused massive debate and contraversi among Internet users, law enforcement bodies,and policy makers regarding misuse of Internet. However, little is known how exactly radical individual and organizations deliver their propaganda on Internet and what radical organizations practice such activities on Internet. Through the use of content analysis approach, this study analyzed various radical websites content to provide deep insight of radical operation and propaganda on Internet. Data was collected from various popular radical organization websites and previous studies. The findings show that well-kown organized radical and terorist oragnizations in Indonesia and International have intensively used Internet for n...

This study examined perspectives of distance education students on online learning based on their access gadgets (availability and functionality), online presentation or teaching methods, actual use of online learning coupled with its challenges. A quantitative approach and descriptive survey design were adopted for the study. A sample of 1061 was drawn from a study population of 44,134 distance learners across sixteen administrative regions and data collected using a questionnaire. Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was used to analyse the hypotheses of the study, and descriptive statistics were deployed to analyse students perceived challenges. The study found a statistically significant relationship between the availability and functionality of online gadgets, availability of online gadgets and online presentation methods, functionality and online presentation methods and functionality and online learning usage. Thus, these factors are necessary for suc...

The article gives general characterisation of the ways in which these organizations use modern communication technologies. Currently, every major terrorist organisation maintain robust media wings, which focus on producing videos, publishing magazines and sharing them with the public via the Web. The empirical system of reference is based on the activity of al-Qaeda, her franchise AQAP (al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) and ISIS (the so-called Islamic State). While analysing the media of terrorist organisations, the Lasswell model was applied. This formula is a standard research procedure used for investigating acts of communication by answering the questions: who, says what, in which channel, to whom, with what effect?. The author also present typology of videos produced by jihadist organisations, characterised the most important and active media actions of terrorist organisations and a typology of recipients of such messages. The article presents a number of reasons why the Internet has become such an important tool for terrorists

1 La Rivista semestrale Sicurezza, Terrorismo e Società intende la Sicurezza come una condizione che risulta dallo stabilizzarsi e dal mantenersi di misure proattive capaci di promuovere il benessere e la qualità della vita dei cittadini e la vitalità democratica delle istituzioni; affronta il fenomeno del Terrorismo come un processo complesso, di lungo periodo, che affonda le sue radici nelle dimensioni culturale, religiosa, politica ed economica che caratterizzano i sistemi sociali; propone alla Società-quella degli studiosi e degli operatori e quella ampia di cittadini e istituzioni-strumenti di com-prensione, analisi e scenari di tali fenomeni e indirizzi di gestione delle crisi. Sicurezza, Terrorismo e Società si avvale dei contributi di studiosi, policy maker, analisti, operatori della sicurezza e dei media interessati all'ambito della sicurezza, del terrorismo e del crisis management. Essa si rivolge a tutti coloro che operano in tali settori, volendo rappresentare un mom...

The research discussed how the Islamic State uses the media to spread their propaganda especially the exploitation of modern communication technology. Then we examined an essential aspect of how the mainstream media deal with ISIS media. We also discussed how we could respond to the narrative of the Islamic State in the era of new media technology. We concluded that ISIS relies on all media outlets from the mainstream media to digital platforms and social media (Facebook and Twitter...); to reach public supporters and opponents for its barbarous ideas. However, mainstream media and Social networks have taken norms against terrorist and extremist groups; and have defined rules of employment that prohibit the use of their services to promote terrorist activities.

As technology-mediated innovations like Mobile Learning Devices (MLDs) spread rapidly across the globe, there are growing concerns on the actual factors that influence students in Higher Educational institutions (HEIs) to accept technology-mediated innovations like smartphones, tablets, and portable computing devices for their educational pursuit. This study adopted Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as a theoretical basis in an attempt to investigate factors that might influence students to accept or decline the use of technology-mediated innovations specifically MLDs for academic purposes from the perspectives of three universities in Ghana. A set of online questionnaire survey was used to collect the needed data from (N=1,030) students. The researchers also conducted data analysis and presentation of findings by testing the suggested research model through Structural Equation Modelling. A regression analysis was also carried out with the help of SmartPLS to assess the path coefficient of the data collected for the model. This study identified influencing factors such as students' awareness levels, m-learning technology types, perceived ease of use, and perceived usefulness as some of the central factors that determine how students use and accept m-learning devices in Ghanaian universities. The study reported limitations such as expensive internet data, poor internet infrastructure, insecurity, privacy issues, and unavailability of electricity as some of the factors limiting the acceptance of MLDs by students in Ghana. Despite the limitations reported in this study, the results from the statistical analysis, show that there are high levels of MLDs acceptance among students from the three sampled higher educational institutions in Ghana. The study recommends that school authorities and governments in developing countries such as Ghana incorporate MLDs in their current higher educational systems.

The goal of this article is to place the role that social media plays in collective action within a more general theoretical structure, using the events of the Arab Spring as a case study. The article presents two broad theoretical principles. The first is that one cannot understand the role of social media in collective action without first taking into account the political environment in which they operate. The second principle states that a significant increase in the use of the new media is much more likely to follow a significant amount of protest activity than to precede it. The study examines these two principles using political, media, and protest data from twenty Arab countries and the Palestinian Authority. The findings provide strong support for the validity of the claims.

We introduce the latest member of the intelligence family. Joining IMINT, HUMINT, SIGINT and others is 'SOCMINT'-social media intelligence. In an age of ubiquitous social media it is the responsibility of the security community to admit SOCMINT into the national intelligence framework, but only when two important tests are passed. First, that it rests on solid methodological bedrock of collection, evidence, verification, understanding and application. Second, that the moral hazard it entails can be legitimately managed. This article offers a framework for how this can be done.

Título: Unidad Didáctica. Búsquedas con Google. Resumen Los alumnos matriculados en una Formación Profesional Básica adaptada, requieren unas necesidades educativas específicas permanentes, por tanto la metodología aplicada en el aula debe ser elaborada específicamente de acuerdo a estas necesidades. Este artículo es un claro ejemplo de una ficha práctica con la que los alumnos comienzan a acercarse a lo que es Internet, partiendo de una de sus funcionalidades más importantes como es la búsqueda de información. Para ello se utilizará como buscador de referencia el buscador de Google, ya que es uno de los más conocidos y usados en la actualidad. Palabras clave: adaptación, necesidades, Google, buscador.

The MARISA Horizon 2020 project improves maritime security communities’ information exchange, situational awareness, decision-making and reaction capabilities with a data fusion toolkit based on various heterogeneous and homogeneous data and information. Open source intelligence (OSINT) is intelligence collected from publicly available sources, including the internet, newspapers, radio, television, government reports and professional and academic literature. Social media intelligence (SOCMINT) can be defined as the analytical exploitation of information available on social media networks. It identifies social media content as an opportunity and challenge for open source investigations. This paper provides qualitative analysis of ethics in maritime surveillance. Ethical issues concerning OSINT, SOCMINT and big data are diverse and evolving. Their impact on MARISA concerns both technology, user processes and the business/governance model. Even though international regulatory guideline...

Since their first appearance as medium of mass interaction, in the early 2000s, social media have rapidly become a precious source of information to researchers of different fields. People spends an increasing amount of their daily time on social platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and so on. Through those social media, the web became a space within which users may represent themselves, interacting in different ways, and produce and consume information constantly.

As technology-mediated innovations like Mobile Learning Devices (MLDs) spread rapidly across the globe, there are growing concerns on the actual factors that influence students in Higher Educational institutions (HEIs) to accept technology-mediated innovations like smartphones, tablets, and portable computing devices for their educational pursuit. This study adopted Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as a theoretical basis in an attempt to investigate factors that might influence students to accept or decline the use of technology-mediated innovations specifically MLDs for academic purposes from the perspectives of three universities in Ghana. A set of online questionnaire survey was used to collect the needed data from (N=1,030) students. The researchers also conducted data analysis and presentation of findings by testing the suggested research model through Structural Equation Modelling. A regression analysis was also carried out with the help of SmartPLS to assess the path coeffic...

A youth audience is the most vulnerable part of society as an object of influence of radical ideas. The authors argue that the most efficient tool of involving young people of different origin and confessional affiliation into the extremist activity on the present stage is social networks. Despite the fact that the practice of using communication networks in the Internet space by terrorist organizations have existed before, it was the information policy of the ISIS (and later IS) that was characterized by the greatest effectiveness, due to the creation of an integrated media structure, which consisted of numerous foundations and agencies (“Al Furqan”, “Aynad”, “Itisaam”, “Al-Hayat”, etc.), allowing them to spread their extremist religious and ideological doctrine on a global scale. The use of the widest range of high-quality media products in Internet media and social networks has expanded the organization’s area of influence by attracting supporters not only from the Middle East re...

As technology-mediated innovations like Mobile Learning Devices (MLDs) spread rapidly across the globe, there are growing concerns on the actual factors that influence students in Higher Educational institutions (HEIs) to accept technology-mediated innovations like smartphones, tablets, and portable computing devices for their educational pursuit. This study adopted Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) as a theoretical basis in an attempt to investigate factors that might influence students to accept or decline the use of technology-mediated innovations specifically MLDs for academic purposes from the perspectives of three universities in Ghana. A set of online questionnaire survey was used to collect the needed data from (N=1,030) students. The researchers also conducted data analysis and presentation of findings by testing the suggested research model through Structural Equation Modelling. A regression analysis was also carried out with the help of SmartPLS to assess the path coefficient of the data collected for the model. This study identified influencing factors such as students' awareness levels, m-learning technology types, perceived ease of use, and perceived usefulness as some of the central factors that determine how students use and accept m-learning devices in Ghanaian universities. The study reported limitations such as expensive internet data, poor internet infrastructure, insecurity, privacy issues, and unavailability of electricity as some of the factors limiting the acceptance of MLDs by students in Ghana. Despite the limitations reported in this study, the results from the statistical analysis, show that there are high levels of MLDs acceptance among students from the three sampled higher educational institutions in Ghana. The study recommends that school authorities and governments in developing countries such as Ghana incorporate MLDs in their current higher educational systems.

The article gives general characterisation of the ways in which these organizations use modern communication technologies. Currently, every major terrorist organisation maintain robust media wings, which focus on producing videos, publishing magazines and sharing them with the public via the Web. The empirical system of reference is based on the activity of al-Qaeda, her franchise AQAP (al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula) and ISIS (the so-called Islamic State). While analysing the media of terrorist organisations, the Lasswell model was applied. This formula is a standard research procedure used for investigating acts of communication by answering the questions: who, says what, in which channel, to whom, with what effect?. The author also present typology of videos produced by jihadist organisations, characterised the most important and active media actions of terrorist organisations and a typology of recipients of such messages. The article presents a number of reasons why the Inter...

Governmental collection of unprotected information from social media platforms via social media intelligence (SOCMINT) techniques enable the detection and prevention of unlawful and malicious activity for law enforcement purposes. Relatively new, these techniques have come under public scrutiny. Recognised as valuable tools for security, law enforcement and regulatory agencies, how government SOCMINT policies align with public expectations is less clear. This article addresses the gap by comparing New Zealand public expectations about the use of false social media personas as a SOCMINT technique with government policies. 248 individuals were surveyed, establishing initial understandings of public expectations. Findings were compared with policies of key oversight agencies-the State Services Commission and Privacy Commission. This article argues that to maintain social licence, governments using false social media personas need to appropriately balance public protection with personal privacy interests. Transparent policy frameworks are needed to maintain trust and confidence in SOCMINT governance.

A youth audience is the most vulnerable part of society as an object of influence of radical ideas. The authors argue that the most efficient tool of involving young people of different origin and confessional affiliation into the extremist activity on the present stage is social networks. Despite the fact that the practice of using communication networks in the Internet space by terrorist organizations have existed before, it was the information policy of the ISIS (and later IS) that was characterized by the greatest effectiveness, due to the creation of an integrated media structure, which consisted of numerous foundations and agencies (“Al Furqan”, “Aynad”, “Itisaam”, “Al-Hayat”, etc.), allowing them to spread their extremist religious and ideological doctrine on a global scale. The use of the widest range of high-quality media products in Internet media and social networks has expanded the organization’s area of influence by attracting supporters not only from the Middle East re...