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The new war correspondents: the rise of civic media curation in urban warfare

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Andrés Monroy-Hernández,

Munmun De Choudhury,

Scott CountsAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '13: Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work

Pages 1443 - 1452

https://doi.org/10.1145/2441776.2441938

Published: 23 February 2013 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper we examine the information sharing practices of people living in cities amid armed conflict. We describe the volume and frequency of microblogging activity on Twitter from four cities afflicted by the Mexican Drug War, showing how citizens use social media to alert one another and to comment on the violence that plagues their communities. We then investigate the emergence of civic media "curators," individuals who act as "war correspondents" by aggregating and disseminating information to large numbers of people on social media. We conclude by outlining the implications of our observations for the design of civic media systems in wartime.

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The new war correspondents: the rise of civic media curation in urban warfare
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business

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