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Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness

Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness

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ISBN10: 1493902091
ISBN13: 9781493902095
Publisher: Springer
Published: Oct 15 2014
Pages: 238
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

President Barack Obama, in his 2011 State of the Union Address, called America the nation of Edison and the Wright brothers and of Google and Facebook. U.S. Chief Information Officer, Steven VanRoekel, said that America has become a Facebook nation that demands increased transparency and interactivity from the federal government. Facebook as a nation in 2012 would be the third largest country in the world with over 900 million citizens, after China and India. This book portrays the social media ecosystem as a world of increasing Total Information Awareness, which is essentially a civilian version of the controversial Total Information Awareness program unveiled in 2002 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at the U.S. Department of Defense. Back in the 60's, DARPA initiated and funded the research and development of Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) that went online in 1969. The success of ARPANET gave rise to the global commercial Internet in the 90's and the new generation of Fortune 500 companies today including Amazon.com, Google, eBay, and Yahoo!. As if life comes full circle in the 21st century, private businesses and the ubiquity of social networks such as Facebook, Google], Twitter, and YouTube are creating the technologies and infrastructures necessary for the DARPA-proposed Total Information Awareness program.

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