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Participatory aid marketplace : designing online channels for digital humanitarians
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Recent years have seen an increase in natural and man-made crises. Information and communication technologies are enabling citizens to contribute creative solutions and participate in crisis response in myriad new ways, ... -
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 ... -
Said-Huntington Discourse Analyzer : a machine-learning tool for classifying and analyzing discourse
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Critical discourse analysis (CDA) aims to understand the link "between language and the social" (Mautner and Baker, 2009), and attempts to demystify social construction and power relations (Gramsci, 1999). On the other ... -
Three Provocations for Civic Crowdfunding
(Information, Communication and Society, 2015-01-08)The rapid rise of crowdfunding in the past five years, most prominently among US-based platforms such as Kickstarter and IndieGoGo, has begun to attract the attention of a wide range of scholars, policymakers and practitioners. ... -
Tim Highfield, Social Media and Everyday Politics
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What We Should Do Before the Social Bots Take Over: Online Privacy Protection and the Political Economy of Our Near Future
(Presented at Media in Transition 8: Public Media, Private Media, MIT, Cambridge, May 5, 2013)Direct interactions between humans and bots generally conjure up images from science fiction of Terminator robots or artificial intelligence gone rogue, like 2001's HAL or The Matrix. In reality, AI is still far from much ... -
Whose Death Matters? A Quantitative Analysis of Media Attention to Deaths of Black Americans in Police Confrontations, 2013–2016
(The International Journal of Communication, 2019)Media coverage of deaths of unarmed people of color at the hands of police sharply increased after the high-profile death of Michael Brown. We analyze a novel set of media data to understand reasons for this rise and to ...
