@inproceedings{77ae49144d58468181e0159a93cd3a44,
title = "The new war correspondents: The rise of civic media curation in urban warfare",
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.",
keywords = "Civic media, Crisis informatics, Crowdsourcing, Curation, Latin america, Mexico, Microblogging, News, Social computing, Social media, Twitter, War",
author = "Andr{\'e}s Monroy-Hern{\'a}ndez and Danah Boyd and Emre Kiciman and {De Choudhury}, Munmun and Scott Counts",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1145/2441776.2441938",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781450313315",
series = "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW",
pages = "1443--1452",
booktitle = "CSCW 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work",
note = "2013 2nd ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW 2013 ; Conference date: 23-02-2013 Through 27-02-2013",
}