In this article we follow a range of significant academics, practitioners and policy makers in highlighting the need to engage with the disruptive digital transformation of the fourth …
B Senekal, E Kotzé - African Security Review, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
With the advent of the information age, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) has gained special prominence in the Intelligence Community (IC). However, the era of big data has …
This article explores the role big data plays in the national security decision-making process. The global surveillance disclosures initiated by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden …
L Resnyansky - Big Data & Society, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper aims to contribute to the development of tools to support an analysis of Big Data as manifestations of social processes and human behaviour. Such a task demands both an …
C Eldridge, C Hobbs, M Moran - Intelligence and National Security, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
In the age of 'Big Data', the potential value of open-source information for intelligence- related purposes is widely recognised. Of late, progress in this space has increasingly …
What is the role of sociological theory in the information age? What kinds of theories are best suited to analyzing the social uses of digital technologies, and for using digital technologies …
THE EMERGENCE OF GLOBAL HYPERCONNECTIVITY through computer networks has occasioned much marvel, reflection, and commentary on its implications for everything from …
JL Regens - Intelligence and National Security, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The unprecedented increase in the volume and velocity of data collected by open source and classified platforms is simultaneously disrupting and transforming the intelligence …