Two-Way: Using Social Media To Gain National Security Understanding Of Areas, Groups

Dr. Nitin Agarwal, the Jerry L. Maulden-Entergy chair and professor of information science at UA Little Rock, speaks to KUAR's Jacob Kauffman about research into Defense Department social media use.

The impact of social media and the internet on political and cultural movements of all stripes - from peaceful political organizing to radicalization, is pretty widely recognized now-a-days. But methods for studying, categorizing, and tracking online groups still has a ways to go.

KUAR’s Jacob Kauffman sat down to talk about government research with Dr. Nitin Agarwal with the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The conversation covers a range of national security issues from Saudi women's rights, to ISIS Twitter bots, to how Russians perceive NATO exercises.

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