Social Networks: Models of Information Influence, Control and Confrontation

Online social networks are intended for communication, opinion exchange and information acquisition for their members, but recently, online social networks have been intensively used as the objects and means of informational control and an arena of informational confrontation. They have become a powerful informational influence tool, particularly for the manipulation of individuals, social groups and society as a whole, as well as a battlefield of information warfare (cyberwars).

This book aimed at under- and postgraduate university students as well as experts in information technology and modeling of social systems and processes.