Academic Review of Humanities and Social Sciences

Yazarlar: Elif TİRYAKİ, Barış ÖZDAL

Konular:Uluslararası İlişkiler

Anahtar Kelimeler:EnIntelligence,Open Source,Social Media

Özet: All the present time, expect for individuals, many formations such as staff institutions commercial companies, non-governmental organizations and terrorist organizations make use of social media platforms, which are very rich about many information, for their own sake. An enormous information pools found out by developing and growing internet networks with each passing day paved the way for the collection of detailed information about persons, groups, organizations, states. By means of intelligence obtained from social media, organizations. Which are motivated by commercial earnings improves themselves in line with the expectations and needs of their customers. On the other hand, states maintain their intelligence activities over social media in order to achieve several purposes such as; having information about competing states preventing activates of propaganda, deducing motivations of guilt and profiles of criminals, identifying and preventing actions in advance that may threaten public welfare, or to obtain clues after a criminal activity and to reach any other connections if exists. For intelligence unit, obtaining intelligence by collecting the data which one easily accessible in social media has become an important tool; yet, it should not be ignored that there are same information which are not real and some information whose aim is propaganda in social media. Accordingly, the technologies that are necessary for refined intelligence information should be developed and educated people should be trained. In this context, the purpose of this dissertation study is to analyze the potential benefits of big data obtained from social media in open source intelligence in different areas such as security, health, technology, economy, and trade.

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