A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Analyzing Images in the Online Information Environment
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Analyzing Images in the Online Information Environment

Author(s): Nora Biteniece
Subject(s): Media studies, Security and defense, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence
Keywords: social media; web; online information environment; image analyze; influence; NATO;
Summary/Abstract: As social media, and the web as a whole, become more visual, organizations and governments can no longer rely solely on textual analysis when seeking to better understand their audiences in the online environment. Methods for thorough analysis of the online information environment, including visual content, must be developed. This chapter discusses the type of information images contain and how it can be extracted, and proposes a computer based image retrieval to extract valuable information from large volumes of images and aggregate it in a meaningful way.

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