The rise and the fall of a citizen reporter

Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci'13

Volumn volume, Issue , 2013, Pages 248-257

  Metaxas, Panagiotis ^a   Mustafaraj, Eni ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen reporters; Civic media; Crisis informatics; Crowdsourcing; Drug war; Mexico; Microblogging; Narcotweets; News; Social computing; Social media; Twitter; Webscience

Indexed keywords

CITIZEN REPORTERS; CIVIC MEDIA; CRISIS INFORMATICS; CROWDSOURCING; DRUG WAR; ME-XICO; MICROBLOGGING; NARCOTWEETS; NEWS; SOCIAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER; WEBSCIENCE;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84883122577     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2464464.2464520     Document Type: Conference Paper

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