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| T 8/29 | Welcome | Introductions and review syllabus | Introduce project | |
| R 8/31 | Overview | Yardley, E., Lynes, A. G. T., Wilson, D., & Kelly, E. (2016). What’s the deal with ‘websleuthing’? News media representations of amateur detectives in networked spaces. Crime, Media, Culture. | Dr. Luther Summary |
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| Madrigal, A. C. (2013, April 19). #BostonBombing: The Anatomy of a Misinformation Disaster. The Atlantic. | Dr. Luther Summary |
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| Demo: Tineye | Dr. Luther Summary |
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| T 9/5 | Tech: Verification | Kriplean, T., Bonnar, C., Borning, A., Kinney, B., & Gill, B. (2014). Integrating On-demand Fact-checking with Public Dialogue. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 1188–1199). New York, NY, USA: ACM. | Sukrit Summary |
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Chapters 1, 3, 6, and 7 of: Silverman, C. (Ed.). (2014). The Verification Handbook: A Definitive Guide to Verifying Digital Content for Emergency Coverage. |
Chiguy Summary |
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| Demo: Amazon Mechanical Turk | Leanna Summary |
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| R 9/7 | Instructor out |
Watch on your own:
Digital Civilian Detectives (video) |
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| T 9/12 | Domain: Journalism | Brandtzaeg, P. B., Lüders, M., Spangenberg, J., Rath-Wiggins, L., & Følstad, A. (2016). Emerging Journalistic Verification Practices Concerning Social Media. Journalism Practice, 10(3), 323–342. | Momen Summary |
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| Aitamurto, T. (2015). Motivation Factors in Crowdsourced Journalism: Social Impact, Social Change, and Peer Learning. International Journal of Communication, 9(0), 21. | Rifat Summary |
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| Demo: Galaxy Zoo | Lee Summary |
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| Website: Bellingcat | ||||
| R 9/14 | Issue: Vigilantism | Trottier, D. (2016). Digital Vigilantism as Weaponisation of Visibility. Philosophy & Technology, 1–18. | Lee Summary |
Pitches due |
| Nhan, J., Huey, L., & Broll, R. (2017). Digilantism: An Analysis of Crowdsourcing and the Boston Marathon Bombings. The British Journal of Criminology, 57(2), 341–361. | Leanna Summary |
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| Optional: Gao, L., & Stanyer, J. (2014). Hunting corrupt officials online: the human flesh search engine and the search for justice in China. Information, Communication & Society, 17(7), 814–829. | ||||
| Demo: Mapillary | Annie Summary |
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| T 9/19 | Tech: Sensemaking | Goyal, N., & Fussell, S. R. (2016). Effects of Sensemaking Translucence on Distributed Collaborative Analysis. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 288–302). New York, NY, USA: ACM. | Annie Summary |
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| Kittur, A., Peters, A. M., Diriye, A., & Bove, M. (2014). Standing on the Schemas of Giants: Socially Augmented Information Foraging. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 999–1010). New York, NY, USA: ACM. | Emma Summary |
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| Demo: Banjo | Dr. Luther | |||
| R 9/21 | Domain: Crime | Lewis, S., & Lewis, D. A. (2012). Examining technology that supports community policing. In Proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1371–1380). New York, NY, USA: ACM. | Rifat Summary |
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| Trottier, D. (2014). Police and user-led investigations on social media. Journal of Law, Information and Science, 23(1). | Leanna Summary |
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| Demo: Check | Tianyi Summary |
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| T 9/26 | Issue: Identity | Douglas, D. M. (2016). Doxing: a conceptual analysis. Ethics and Information Technology, 18(3), 199–210. | Momen Summary |
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| Bernstein, M. S., Monroy-Hernandez, A., Harry, D., André, P., & Panovich, K. (2011). 4chan and /b/: An Analysis of Anonymity and Ephemerality in a Large Online Community. In Proceedings of the Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media. | Tianyi Summary |
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| Demo: Shodan | Emma Summary |
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| R 9/28 | Tech: Mobile | Agapie, E., Teevan, J., & Monroy-Hernández, A. (2015). Crowdsourcing in the Field: A Case Study Using Local Crowds for Event Reporting. In Third AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing. | Chiguy Summary |
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| Dimond, J. P., Dye, M., Larose, D., & Bruckman, A. S. (2013). Hollaback!: The Role of Storytelling Online in a Social Movement Organization. In Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (pp. 477–490). New York, NY, USA: ACM. | Lee Summary |
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| Demo: Snap-Map | Sukrit Summary |
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| T 10/3 | Media portrayals | Wisdom of the Crowd | ||
| R 10/5 | Domain: Human rights | Edwards, S., & Koettl, C. (2011). Looking to the Sky: Monitoring Human Rights through Remote Sensing. Harvard International Review; Cambridge, 32(4), 66–71. | Momen Summary |
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| Hanham, M. (2015, July 9). Kim Jong Un Tours Pesticide Facility Capable of Producing Biological Weapons. 38North. | Tianyi Summary |
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| Demo: Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) | Emma Summary |
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| T 10/10 | Peer feedback #1 |
Leanna Lee Rifat Tianyi |
Presentation #1 | |
| R 10/12 | Peer feedback #1 |
Emma Chiguy Momen Sukrit |
Presentation #1 | |
| T 10/17 | Issue: Shame | Chapter 4 of Ronson, J. (2015). So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. New York: Riverhead Books. Warning: Contains offensive language and threats of violence. | Emma Summary |
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| Chapter 6 of Ronson, J. (2015). So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. New York: Riverhead Books. Warning: Contains offensive language and threats of violence. | Leanna Summary |
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| Demo: Timeline JS | Tianyi Summary |
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| R 10/19 | Tech: Biometrics | Davis, J. P., Jansari, A., & Lander, K. (2013). I never forget a face! The Psychologist, 26, 726–729. | Leanna Summary |
Recommended: Draft of introduction |
| Toobin, J. (2007, April 30). The CSI Effect. The New Yorker. | Rifat Summary |
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| Demo: Truthfinder | Momen Summary |
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| T 10/24 | Instructor out | |||
| R 10/26 | Issue: Security (Guest: Prof. Gang Wang) |
Gang Wang, Christo Wilson, Xiaohan Zhao, Yibo Zhu, Manish Mohanlal, Haitao Zheng, and Ben Y. Zhao. 2012. Serf and turf: crowdturfing for fun and profit. In Proceedings of the 21st international conference on World Wide Web (WWW ’12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 679-688. | Chiguy Summary |
Recommended: Draft of related work |
| Lasecki, W. S., Teevan, J., & Kamar, E. (2014). Information Extraction and Manipulation Threats in Crowd-powered Systems. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 248–256). New York, NY, USA: ACM. | Chiguy Summary |
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| Demo: GDELT | Leanna Summary |
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| T 10/31 | Domain: Crisis | Bica, M., Palen, L., & Bopp, C. (2017). Visual Representations of Disaster. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (pp. 1262–1276). New York, NY, USA: ACM. | Tianyi Summary |
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| Dailey, D., & Starbird, K. (2014). Journalists as Crowdsourcerers: Responding to Crisis by Reporting with a Crowd. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 23(4–6), 445–481. | Emma Summary |
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| Skype Q&A with Ted Humphrey, creator of Wisdom of the Crowd | ||||
| R 11/2 | Issue: Privacy | Lasecki, W. S., Gordon, M., Leung, W., Lim, E., Bigham, J. P., & Dow, S. P. (2015). Exploring Privacy and Accuracy Trade-Offs in Crowdsourced Behavioral Video Coding. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1945–1954). New York, NY, USA: ACM. | Sukrit Summary |
Recommended: Draft of methods |
| Susan E. McGregor, Elizabeth Anne Watkins, and Kelly Caine. 2017. Would You Slack That? The Impact of Security and Privacy on Cooperative Newsroom Work. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 1, 2, Article 75 (November 2017), 22 pages. | Lee Summary |
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| Demo: Kali Linux | Chiguy Summary |
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| T 11/7 | Peer feedback #2 |
Leanna Sukrit Lawrence Momen |
Presentation #2 | |
| R 11/9 | Peer feedback #2 |
Lee Rifat Tianyi |
Presentation #2 | |
| T 11/14 | Issue: Media effects (Guest: Prof. Mike Horning) | Horning, M. A. (2017). Interacting with news: Exploring the effects of modality and perceived responsiveness and control on news source credibility and enjoyment among second screen viewers. Computers in Human Behavior, 73(Supplement C), 273–283. | Rifat Summary |
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| Ceren Budak, Sharad Goel, Justin M. Rao; Fair and Balanced? Quantifying Media Bias through Crowdsourced Content Analysis, Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 80, Issue S1, 1 January 2016, Pages 250–271. | Chiguy Summary |
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| Demo: Wiibrew | Chiguy Summary |
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| R 11/16 | Tech: Visualization | Endert, A., Fiaux, P., & North, C. (2012). Semantic Interaction for Visual Text Analytics. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 473–482). New York, NY, USA: ACM. | Tianyi Summary |
Recommended: Draft of results |
| Diakopoulos, N., Naaman, M., & Kivran-Swaine, F. (2010). Diamonds in the rough: Social media visual analytics for journalistic inquiry. In 2010 IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (pp. 115–122). | Lee Summary |
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| Peer feedback presentation #2 | Emma | |||
| T 11/21 | Thanksgiving break | |||
| R 11/23 | Thanksgiving break | |||
| T 11/28 | Issue: Credibility (Guest: Prof. Tanushree Mitra) |
Mitra, T., & Gilbert, E. (2015). CREDBANK: A Large-Scale Social Media Corpus With Associated Credibility Annotations. In Ninth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. AAAI. | Emma Summary |
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| Morris, M. R., Counts, S., Roseway, A., Hoff, A., & Schwarz, J. (2012). Tweeting is Believing?: Understanding Microblog Credibility Perceptions. In Proceedings of the ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (pp. 441–450). New York, NY, USA: ACM. | Sukrit Summary |
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| Demo: Montage | Momen | |||
| R 11/30 | Domain: History | Rosenzweig, R. (2006). Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past. Journal of American History, 93(1), 117–146. | Momen Summary |
Recommended: Draft of discussion |
| Willever-Farr, H. L., & Forte, A. (2014). Family Matters: Control and Conflict in Online Family History Production. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (pp. 475–486). New York, NY, USA: ACM. | Sukrit Summary |
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| Demo: WebNLP | Emma Summary |
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| T 12/5 | Demo day | Demo: Social Searcher | Rifat Summary |
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| Demo: Snopes | Rifat Summary |
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| Demo: LegionTools | Sukrit Summary |
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| Demo: Nextdoor | Lee Summary |
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| R 12/7 | Final project presentations |
Momen Chiguy Sukrit Leanna |
Final presentation | |
| T 12/12 | Final project presentations |
Emma Rifat Tianyi Lee |
Final presentation | |
| R 12/14 | Reading Day | SPOT Survey due | ||
| F 12/15 | Final project due |