Center for Civic Media: Recent submissions
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The revolutions were tweeted: Information flows during the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions
(International Journal of Communication, 2011)This article details the networked production and dissemination of news on Twitter during snapshots of the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions as seen through information flows—sets of near-duplicate tweets—across ... -
The Battle for ‘Trayvon Martin’: Mapping a Media Controversy Online and Offline
(First Monday, 2014-02-03)One of the biggest news stories of 2012, the killing of Trayvon Martin, nearly disappeared from public view, initially receiving only cursory local news coverage. But the story gained attention and controversy over Martin’s ... -
Caveat emptor, computational social science: Large-scale missing data in a widely-published Reddit corpus
(PLOS One, 2018-07-06)As researchers use computational methods to study complex social behaviors at scale, the validity of this computational social science depends on the integrity of the data. On July 2, 2015, Jason Baumgartner published a ...
