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Blogtrackers & YouTubeTracker Blog and YouTube Monitoring Tools Nitin Agarwal (nxagarwal@ualr.edu) Maulden-Entergy Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies (COSMOS) University

  1. Blogtrackers & YouTubeTracker Blog and YouTube Monitoring Tools Nitin Agarwal (nxagarwal@ualr.edu) Maulden-Entergy Endowed Chair and Distinguished Professor Collaboratorium for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies (COSMOS) University of Arkansas – Little Rock This work is supported by ONR, ARO, AFRL, DARPA, NSF, Department of State, DHS, Arkansas Research Alliance, and Jerry L. Maulden/Entergy Endowment

  2. Blogtrackers • Blogtrackers is designed to explore the blogosphere and gain insights about events and how these events are perceived in the blogging community. • Provides analyst with means to develop situation awareness. • Extract insights like key influencers of the blogosphere. • Comprehend trends and understand leading narratives • Conduct sentiment analysis on a wide range of subjects. • Identify any unusual patterns in blog postings. blogtrackers.host.ualr.edu/ Agarwal, Nitin (COSMOS) SBP-BRiMS 2019, Washington D.C. 2

  3. Blogtrackers References • Quick How-To • i. Agarwal, N. et al. (2012). Modeling Blogger Visit the Blogtrackers website Influence in a Community. Social Network ii. Sign-up Analysis and Mining , Springer. Vol. 2, No. 2, iii. Start tracking! pp. 139-162. 2012. DOI: 10.1007/s13278- • Blogtrackers User Guide, 011-0039-3. http://blogtrackers.host.ualr.edu/Blogtracker • Agarwal, N. & Bandeli, K. (2018). Examining s/documentation/blogtrackers_user_guide.p Strategic Integration of Social Media df Platforms in Disinformation Campaign • Blogtrackers Technical Guide, Coordination. Journal of NATO Defence http://blogtrackers.host.ualr.edu/Blogtracker Strategic Communications , Vol. 4, pp. 173- s/documentation/blogtrackers_technical_res 206, 2018. DOI: 10.30966/2018.RIGA.4.6. ource.pdf Agarwal, Nitin (COSMOS) SBP-BRiMS 2019, Washington D.C. 3

  4. YouTubeTracker • YouTube is the second most popular website in the world with 5 billion videos watched every day. Yet little to no analysis is done.YouTubeTracker attempts to change that by providing the power of analytics into the hands of the users. • With YouTubeTracker, a user can: • Visualize channel activity • Study networks of videos, channels, commenters, and more • Analyze content engagement trends • Identify influential actors/groups • Track content of interest • Detect inorganic behaviors (artificial commenter mobs, etc.) youtubetracker.host.ualr.edu/ Agarwal, Nitin (COSMOS) SBP-BRiMS 2019, Washington D.C. 4

  5. YouTubeTracker References • Quick How-To • i. Hussain, M., Al-Khateeb, S., Tokdemir, S., & Visit the YouTubeTracker website Agarwal, N. (2018). Analyzing Disinformation ii. Sign-up and Crowd Manipulation Tactics on YouTube. In iii. Provide YouTube API key. An the Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International instructional video is provided. Conference on Advances in Social Networks iv. Start tracking! Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), August 28-31, 2018, Barcelona, Spain. Springer. ISBN: 978-9934-564-1 9 - 2 • Al-khateeb, S. & Agarwal, N. (2019). Deviance in Social Media and Social Cyber Forensics: Uncovering Hidden Relations Using Open Source Information (OSINF). SpringerBriefs in Cybersecurity. Springer, 2019. ISBN: 978-3-030- 13689-5. DIGITAL HYDRA: SECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF FALSE INFORMATION ONLINE Agarwal, Nitin (COSMOS) SBP-BRiMS 2019, Washington D.C. 5

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