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IIT Madras PSOSM Lectures: Privacy & Security in Online Social Media

BSCS400345 lectures12 weeks

Weeks

  1. Week 15 lecturesIntroduction to the course · Social network analysis 101 · Social media implications in real life · Network metrics · Research projects
  2. Week 26 lecturesData collection · Twitter API · Twitter search-getting historical tweets · Twitter stream-getting live tweets · Twitter other endpoints · Reddit data collection
  3. Week 35 lecturesSocial media text · Social media text to insights · Reading text and string manipulation methods · Text processing libraries-NLTK, spaCy · Feature extraction and tasks
  4. Week 44 lecturesFake news · Types of fake news · Concepts related to fake news · How to spot fake news
  5. Week 54 lecturesResearch methods-fake news · Content-based fake news detection · Misinformation on WhatsApp and fake news datasets · Practical solutions to combat fake news
  6. Week 64 lecturesOnline social media and policing · Privacy in online social media · Identity resolution · Privacy and security in online social media
  7. Week 73 lecturesNudges in social media · Cybercrime · Methods for hate speech and abuse detection on online social media
  8. Week 83 lecturesPrivacy on social media · Information disclosure · Personally identifiable information
  9. Week 93 lecturesConducting studies on privacy and social media · Privacy laws · Protecting privacy on social media-anonymization
  10. Week 103 lecturesEthics in social media research-studies of concern · Ethics in social media research-solutions · Bias in social media research
  11. Week 113 lecturesPaper discussion · Paper discussion · Degree, closeness, and betweenness centrality examples
  12. Week 122 lecturesPaper discussion · What all has been covered in the course

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