Internet Media & Security

Catalog description

This course provides a broad view of internet social media and its related threats and covers frontlines of research topics in internet social media and social security. After the characteristics of social media and social media models, students will learn why and how social media is going to shape our future and will pose a variety of challenges to social media domestically as well as internationally. Students will explore specific IT architectures of social media and their unique technologies. Relational database and noSQL database and distributed and parallel file processing such as Hadoop and Map Reduce from Google will be reviewed and discussed extensively. Toward the end of the class, students will be able to build a social media application, and to identify, predict and social media threats.