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Information Forensics: Five Case Studies on How to Verify Crowdsourced Information from Social Media
My 20+ page study on verifying crowdsourced information is now publicly available here as a PDF and here as an open Google Doc for comments. I very much welcome constructive feedback from iRevolution readers so I can improve the piece … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Crisis Mapping, Crowdsourcing, Information Forensics, Ushahidi
Tagged andy, bbc, carvin, data, Kyrgyzstan, media, SBTF, Skype, social, triangulation, Twitter, U-Shahid, validation, verification
How to Verify Social Media Content: Some Tips and Tricks on Information Forensics
Update: I have authored a 20+ page paper on verifying social media content based on 5 case studies. Please see this blog post for a copy. I get this question all the time: “How do you verify social media data?” … Continue reading
Posted in Crowdsourcing, Information Forensics, Social Media
Tagged andy, arasmus, authentication, bbc, carvin, media, social, triangulation, validation, verification
Humanitarianism in the Network Age: Groundbreaking Study
My colleagues at the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) have just published a groundbreaking must-read study on Humanitarianism in the Network Age; an important and forward-thinking policy document on humanitarian technology and innovation. The report “imagines how … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Crisis Mapping, Crowdsourcing, Digital Activism, Humanitarian Tech, Social Computing, Social Media
Tagged Age, Future, Humanitarianism, Network, OCHA
Using Crowdsourcing to Counter the Spread of False Rumors on Social Media During Crises
My new colleague Professor Yasuaki Sakamoto at the Stevens Institute of Tech-nology (SIT) has been carrying out intriguing research on the spread of rumors via social media, particularly on Twitter and during crises. In his latest research, “Toward a Social-Technological System that … Continue reading
Posted in Crowdsourcing, Humanitarian Tech, Information Forensics, Social Media
Tagged Credibility, critical, rumors, Thinking, Truth, Twitter, verification
Keynote: Next Generation Humanitarian Technology
I’m excited to be giving the Keynote address at the Social Media and Response Management Interface Event (SMARMIE 2013) in New York this morning. A big thank you to the principal driver behind this important event, Chuck Frank, for kindly … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Conferences, Crisis Mapping, Crowdsourcing, Humanitarian Tech, Social Computing, Social Media
Tagged smarmieNYC
Comparing the Quality of Crisis Tweets Versus 911 Emergency Calls
In 2010, I published this blog post entitled “Calling 911: What Humanitarians Can Learn from 50 Years of Crowdsourcing.” Since then, humanitarian colleagues have become increasingly open to the use of crowdsourcing as a methodology to both collect and process … Continue reading
Posted in Crowdsourcing, Humanitarian Tech, Information Forensics, Social Media
Tagged 911, Calls, data, Emergency, Fake, False, Quality, Twitter
Debating the Value of Tweets For Disaster Response (Intelligently)
With every new tweeted disaster comes the same old question: what is the added value of tweets for disaster response? Only a handful of data-driven studies actually bother to move the debate beyond anecdotes. It is thus high time that a meta-level … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Social Computing, Social Media
Tagged Actionable, Awareness, Disaster, Response, Situational, Tweets, Value
Automatically Ranking the Credibility of Tweets During Major Events
In their study, “Credibility Ranking of Tweets during High Impact Events,” authors Aditi Gupta and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru “analyzed the credibility of information in corresponding to fourteen high impact news events of 2011 around the globe.” According to their analysis, “30% of total … Continue reading
Posted in Big Data, Information Forensics, Social Computing, Social Media
Tagged analysis, Credibility, Events, Twitter, verification
Predicting the Credibility of Disaster Tweets Automatically
“Predicting Information Credibility in Time-Sensitive Social Media” is one of this year’s most interesting and important studies on “information forensics”. The analysis, co-authored by my QCRI colleague ChaTo Castello, will be published in Internet Research and should be required reading for anyone interested … Continue reading
Posted in Crowdsourcing, Information Forensics, Social Computing, Social Media
Tagged analysis, Chile, Credibility, earthquake, Twitter, Veracity
