Schedule

Date Topic Readings Leader Assignments
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

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Madrigal, A. C. (2013, April 19). #BostonBombing: The Anatomy of a Misinformation Disaster. The Atlantic. Dr. Luther

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Demo: Tineye Dr. Luther

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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

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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

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Demo: Amazon Mechanical Turk Leanna

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R 9/7 Instructor out Watch on your own:

Digital Civilian Detectives (video)

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

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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

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Demo: Galaxy Zoo Lee

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Trottier, D. (2014). Police and user-led investigations on social media. Journal of Law, Information and Science, 23(1). Leanna

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Demo: Check Tianyi

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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

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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

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Demo: Shodan Emma

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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

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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

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Demo: Snap-Map Sukrit

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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
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Hanham, M. (2015, July 9). Kim Jong Un Tours Pesticide Facility Capable of Producing Biological Weapons. 38North. Tianyi
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Demo: Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) Emma
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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

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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

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Demo: Timeline JS Tianyi

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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

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Recommended: Draft of introduction
Toobin, J. (2007, April 30). The CSI Effect. The New Yorker. Rifat

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Demo: Truthfinder Momen

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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

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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

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Demo: GDELT Leanna

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Demo: Kali Linux Chiguy

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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

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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

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Demo: Wiibrew Chiguy

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Demo: WebNLP Emma

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T 12/5 Demo day Demo: Social Searcher Rifat

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Demo: Snopes Rifat

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Demo: LegionTools Sukrit

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Demo: Nextdoor Lee

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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