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International Research Project to Investigate Covert Online Influence
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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is part of an international research cohort that has received about $2.35 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to investigate the use of social cyber forensics to understand covert online influence.
The four-year project, "Fusing Narrative and Social Cyber Forensics to Understand Covert Influence," also involves Arizona State University, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and experts from Indonesia and the Philippines.
The research will help fill the knowledge gap the U.S. faces with regard to China's engagement in "informationized" warfare.
Social media provides opportunities for gaining situational awareness to assist strategic policy making, but social media data " is often riddled with challenges such as high volume and velocity, noisy data, missing data, and incomplete data," says Nitin Agarwal, principal investigator for UA Little Rock. "This project will develop computational, systematic, and rigorous methods that are grounded in social science theories and cyber forensic methodologies to study big social media data and surmount the challenges."
From University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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