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Emerging Capacities of Mass Participation Lab @ University of Washington

The Emerging Capacities of Mass Participation(emCOMP) Laboratory, directed by Assistant Professor Kate Starbird, investigates the dynamics of massive participation and interaction enabled by new and social media. Focusing on specific events and issues that bring people together on a large scale, researchers both examine the flow of interactions and explore possibilities for applying online participation to problem-solving on a massive or even global scale. Situated within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), as well as the emerging fields of collective intelligence, crowdsourcing, and human computation, the lab’s research integrates qualitative, quantitative, and computational analysis of social media interactions and seeks to identify and pursue design opportunities to support and harness mass participation within relevant contexts.

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emCOMP Researchers

Directed by Assistant Professor Kate Starbird, emCOMP lab members are PhD, Master's and Undergraduate students in Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE) and Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at the University of Washington.

 

 

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Drawing the Lines of Contention: Networked Frame Contests Within #BlackLivesMatter Discourse (2017)

Leo G. Stewart, Ahmer Arif, A. Conrad Nied, Emma S. Spiro, and Kate Starbird.

PACMHCI. 1, CSCW, Article 122 (November), 23 pages
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Examining the Alternative Media Ecosystem through the Production of Alternative Narratives of Mass Shooting Events on Twitter (2017)

Kate Starbird.

To appear in Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2017), Montreal, Canada.
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A Closer Look at the Self-Correcting Crowd: Examining Corrections in Online Rumors (2017)

Arif, A., John Robinson, Stephanie Stanek, Elodie Fichet, Paul Townsend, Zena Worku and Kate Starbird

To appear in Proceedings of the ACM 2017 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '17).
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Social Media Seamsters: Stitching Platforms & Audiences into Local Crisis Infrastructure (2017)

Dailey, D. and Kate Starbird

To appear in Proceedings of the ACM 2017 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '17).
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