Publications
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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A Closer Look at the Self-Correcting Crowd: Examining Corrections in Online Rumors
Arif, A., John Robinson, Stephanie Stanek, Elodie Fichet, Paul Townsend, Zena Worku and Kate Starbird (2017)
To appear in Proceedings of the ACM 2017 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '17).
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Social Media Seamsters: Stitching Platforms & Audiences into Local Crisis Infrastructure
Dailey, D. and Kate Starbird (2017)
To appear in Proceedings of the ACM 2017 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '17).
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Addressing the Information Needs of Crisis-Affected Communities: The Interplay of Legacy Media and Social Media in a Rural Disaster
Dailey, D. and Kate Starbird (2016)
In The Communications Crisis in America, and How to Fix It. Friedland L. and Lloyd, M. editors. Palgrave MacMillan. Forthcoming
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Keeping Up with the Tweet-Dashians: The Impact of ‘Official’ Accounts on Online Rumoring
Andrews, Cynthia, Elodie Fichet, Stella Ding, Emma Spiro, and Kate Starbird (2016)
Presented at ACM 2016 Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2016)
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Could This Be True?: I Think So! Expressed Uncertainty in Online Rumoring
Starbird, Kate. Emma Spiro, Isabelle Edwards, Kaitlyn Zhou, Jim Maddock,and Sindhuja Narasimhan (2016)
In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 360-371.
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Eyes on the Ground: Emerging Practices in Periscope Use during Crisis Events
Fichet, Elodie, John Robinson, Dharma Dailey and Kate Starbird (2016)
2016 Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Conference (ISCRAM 2016), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. May 22-25, 2016.
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How Information Snowballs: Exploring the Role of Exposure in Online Rumor Propagation
Arif, Ahmer, Kelley Shanahan, Fang-Ju Chou, Yoanna Dosouto, Kate Starbird, Emma Spiro (2016)
Presented at ACM 2016 Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2016)
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Rumors at the Speed of Light? Modeling the Rate of Rumor Transmission during Crisis
Zeng, Li, Kate Starbird and Emma Spiro (2015)
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2016)
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Examining the Role of Human and Technical Infrastructure during Emergency Response
Robinson, John, Jim Maddock and Kate Starbird (2015)
Presented at the 2015 Information Systems for Crisis Response & Management Conference (ISCRAM 2015), Kristiansand, Norway. May 24-27, 2015
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Expressed Uncertainty and Denials as Signals of Online Rumoring
Starbird, Kate, Emma Spiro, Ahmer Arif, Fang-Ju Chou, Sindhuja Narisimhan, Jim Maddock, Kelley Shanahan and John Robinson (2015)
Presented at Collective Intelligence 2015, San Francisco, CA
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Using Historical Twitter Data for Research: Ethical Challenges of Tweet Deletions
Maddock, Jim, Kate Starbird and Robert M. Mason (2015)
Presented at CSCW ’15 Workshop on Ethics at the 2015 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2015), Vancouver, Canada
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Characterizing Online Rumoring Behavior Using Multi-Dimensional Signatures
Maddock, J., Starbird, K., Al-Hassani, H., Sandoval, D., Orand, M., & Mason, R.M. (2015)
Proceedings of the ACM 2015 Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2015)
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Connected Through Crisis: Emotional Proximity and the Spread of Misinformation Online
Huang, L., Starbird, K., Orand, M., Stanek, S., and Pedersen, H. (2015)
Proceedings of the ACM 2015 Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2015),Vancouver, Canada
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Journalists as Crowdsourcerers: Responding to Crisis by Reporting with a Crowd
Dailey, D. and Starbird, K. (2014)
J of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Special Issue: Crisis Informatics and Collaboration, Dec 2014, 23(4-6), 445-481
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Social Media, Public Participation, and the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Starbird, K., Dailey, D., Walker,A.H., Leschine, T.M., Pavia, R., and Bostrom, A. (2014)
Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal
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Visible Skepticism: Community Vetting after Hurricane Irene
Dailey, D. and Starbird, K. (2014)
Short Paper. 2014 Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Conference (ISCRAM 2014), Penn State University
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Designing for the Deluge: Understanding & Supporting the Distributed, Collaborative Work of Crisis Volunteers
Cobb, C., McCarthy, T., Perkins, A., Bharadwaj, A., Comis, J., Do, B., & Starbird, K. (2014)
Proceedings of the ACM 2014 Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2014), Baltimore, MD.
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Rumors, False Flags, and Digital Vigilantes: Misinformation on Twitter after the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings
Starbird, K., Maddock, J., Orand, M., Achterman, P., & Mason, R.M. (2014).
iConference 2014.
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Best Note Award.
Delivering Patients to Sacré Coeur: Collective Intelligence in Digital Volunteer Communities
Starbird, Kate. (2013)
Proceedings of the ACM 2013 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013), Paris, France.
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Working & Sustaining the Virtual “Disaster Desk.”
Starbird, Kate and Leysia Palen. (2013)
Proceedings of the ACM 2013 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2013), San Antonio, TX, pp. 491-502.
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Best Paper Award.
Crowdwork, Crisis and Convergence: How the Connected Crowd Organizes Information during Mass Disruption Events
(How) Will the Revolution be Retweeted? Information Diffusion and the 2011 Egyptian Uprising
Starbird, Kate and Leysia Palen. (2012)
Proceedings of the ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2012)
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Learning from the crowd: Collaborative filtering techniques for identifying on-the-ground Twitterers during mass disruptions
Promoting Structured Data in Citizen Communications During Disaster Response: An Account of Strategies for Diffusion of the ‘Tweak the Tweet’ Syntax
Starbird, Kate, Leysia Palen, and others. (2012)
In Christine Hagar (Ed.), Crisis Information Management: Communication and Technologies, Cambridge, UK: Woodhead Publishing Limited.
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“Beacons of Hope” in Decentralized Coordination: Learning from On-the-Ground Medical Twitterers During the 2010 Haiti Earthquake
Sarcevic, Aleskandra, Leysia Palen, Joanne White, Mossaab Bagdouri, Kate Starbird, Kenneth M. Anderson, (2012)
2012 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Bellevue, WA
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Voluntweeters”: Self-Organizing by Digital Volunteers in Times of Crisis
Starbird, Kate and Leysia Palen. (2011)
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011), Vancouver, CA.
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Honorable Mention Award.
Chatter on The Red: What Hazards Threat Reveals about the Social Life of Microblogged Information
Starbird, Kate, Leysia Palen, Amanda L Hughes, and Sarah Vieweg. (2010)
Proceedings of the ACM 2010 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2010), Savannah, GA, pp. 241-250.
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Honorable Mention Award.
A Comparison of Microblogging Behavior in Two Natural Hazards Events: What Twitter May Contribute to Situational Awareness
Vieweg, Sarah, Amanda L. Hughes, Kate Starbird, and Leysia Palen. (2010)
Proceedings of the ACM 2010 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2010), Atlanta, GA, pp. 1079-1088.
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Pass It On?: Retweeting in Mass Emergencies
Starbird, Kate and Leysia Palen. (2010)
Presented at the 2010 Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Conference (ISCRAM 2010), Seattle, WA
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Tweak the Tweet: Leveraging Microblogging Proliferation with a Prescriptive Grammar to Support Citizen Reporting
Starbird, Kate and Jeannie Stamberger. (2010)
Presented at the 2010 Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Conference (ISCRAM 2010), Seattle, WA
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