Hiding in plain sight: A tale of trust and mistrust inside a community of citizen reporters

ICWSM 2012 - Proceedings of the 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 250-257

  Mustafaraj, Eni ^a   Metaxas, Panagiotis ^a   Finn, Samantha ^a   Monroy Hernández, Andrés ^b  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTERNAL PRESSURES; FREE SPEECH; INFLUENTIAL INDIVIDUALS; LARGE VOLUMES; RANKING ALGORITHM; REAL-WORLD; SOCIAL WEBS; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

COMPETITION; CRIME; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84890587470     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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