Social media and digital communication tools have largely been considered as positive vehicles of change. However, the power of social media has been harnessed by extremists and terrorist groups to spread propaganda and influence mass thinking. From the terrorist attacks…
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Nitin Agarwal
Nitin Agarwal
Nitin Agarwal is the Jerry L. Maulden-Entergy Endowed Chair Professor of Information Science at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He has published five books and more than 100 peer reviewed articles in top-tier forums with several best paper awards in the areas of social computing, data mining, privacy, social-cyber security and health informatics. His research is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Air Force Research Laboratory, and Army Research Office. Agarwal obtained a Ph.D. from Arizona State University with outstanding dissertation recognition in 2009.