Overview

This book presents the latest technological advances and practical tools for discovering, verifying and visualizing social media video content, and managing related rights.

The Digital Media Revolution

The digital media revolution is bringing breaking news to online video platforms, and news organizations often rely on user-generated recordings of new and developing events shared in social media to illustrate the story.

Challenges of Video Content

However, in video, there is also deception. In today''s "fake news" era, access to increasingly sophisticated editing and content management tools and the ease with which fake information spreads in electronic networks, require the entire news and media industries to carefully verify third-party content before publishing it.

Intended Audience

As such, this book is of interest to computer scientists and researchers, news and media professionals, as well as policymakers and data-savvy media consumers.