The new war correspondents

Monroy-Hernández, Andrés; boyd, danah; Kıcıman, Emre; Choudhury, Munmun De; Counts, Scott

doi:10.1145/2441776.2441938

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“…Mancini (2013, p. iii) shows how ‘cell phones, social media, crowdsourcing, crisis mapping, blogging, and big data analytics can have short-term effects to forestall crises and in the long-term to address the root causes of violence’. Similar advances have been made with Twitter (Monroy-Hernández et al, 2012) and Google data (Coscia & Rios, 2012).…”

Section: Theorizing Peaceful Urban Engagements Through Technologymentioning

confidence: 61%

Smart Cities, Mobile Technologies and Social Cohesion in India

Miklian

Hoelscher

2017

Indian Journal of Human Development

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India’s cities are projected to grow by 300 million people by 2050, but this demographic transition may exacerbate fragile communal and infrastructural tensions. To address these challenges, the ‘Smart Cities’ agenda attempts to leverage India’s rapid embrace of technology to generate societal positive developmental outcomes in urban areas that emphasize the use of Internet and communications technologies (ICTs). However, local, regional and national government agencies struggle to balance embracing technology with inclusive development that protects civil rights and liberties. While the benefits are often stated, the acceleration of technology use in urban development can also create exclusionary cities, and many technologies that drive India’s modernization have also facilitated riots and violence between communities. This article explores these contradictions, examining scholarship on Smart Cities and ICTs in the context of the 2015–2016 Patel/Patidar agitation in Gujarat. We conclude by offering forward pathways for the Smart Cities and mobile technology agendas that support inclusive urban growth and development in India but are also mindful of civil liberties.

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Section: Theorizing Peaceful Urban Engagements Through Technologymentioning

confidence: 61%

Smart Cities, Mobile Technologies and Social Cohesion in India

Miklian

Hoelscher

2017

Indian Journal of Human Development

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“…During the Gulf War, Iraqi citizens used Facebook to keep track of their friends and family, help each other, and find ways to improve their country (Semaan & Mark, 2012). During the Mexican Drug War, individuals used social media to aggregate and disseminate information to large numbers of people (Monroy-Hernández et al, 2013). My study showed similar social media practices among participants.…”

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Rethinking civic computing in China

Kou

Nardi

2016

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Civic computing research is concerned with the relationship of digital technologies to civic participation. We discuss Foucault’s work on the care of the self which considers how a person seeks a certain mode of being such as happiness, perfection, or wisdom. We describe our qualitative study of Chinese mainland citizens who used technologies to understand and participate in political events, in particular the Hong Kong Umbrella Movement. We examine how care of the self offers an alternative, critical perspective for rethinking civic participation and civic computing.

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“…In particular, social media tools have been used to report various activities including breaking news [22], public debates [17], crises like floods [31], earthquakes [29], or even during wartime [24]. Recently, leveraging social media resources for local communities has drawn considerable attention in both research and industry.…”

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“…For example, the news of both the 2012 Aurora shootings in Colorado and the 2012 Empire State Building shooting in New York City were reported by social media users earlier than by traditional news outlets [8,2]. Social media has also become one of the few sources of local news-and life-saving information-where traditional media is sometimes censored by governments or even criminal organizations [24]. Moreover, social media has emerged as a dominant platform for communication and connection.…”

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Whoo.ly

Farnham

Monroy-Hernández

2013

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Social media systems promise powerful opportunities for people to connect to timely, relevant information at the hyper local level. Yet, finding the meaningful signal in noisy social media streams can be quite daunting to users. In this paper, we present and evaluate Whoo.ly, a web service that provides neighborhood-specific information based on Twitter posts that were automatically inferred to be hyperlocal. Whoo.ly automatically extracts and summarizes hyperlocal information about events, topics, people, and places from these Twitter posts. We provide an overview of our design goals with Whoo.ly and describe the system including the user interface and our unique event detection and summarization algorithms. We tested the usefulness of the system as a tool for finding neighborhood information through a comprehensive user study. The outcome demonstrated that most participants found Whoo.ly easier to use than Twitter and they would prefer it as a tool for exploring their neighborhoods.

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The new war correspondents

Cited by 51 publications

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Smart Cities, Mobile Technologies and Social Cohesion in India

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