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The New War Correspondents:The Rise of Civic
Media Curation in Urban Warfare
Andrés Monroy-Hernández (@andresmh)
danah boyd, Emre Kiciman,
Munmun De Choudhury, Scott Counts
Microsoft Research
CSCW - February, 27 2013© Gael Gonzalez/Reuters
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Outline
1. Context: Mexican Drug War2. Information War3. Tweeting the War4. Citizen News Curators5. Summary
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© Associated Press
Role of social media in acute events: floods, earthquakes, terrorist attacks, shootings, political uprisings, etc
- Al Ani et al (2012)- Bruns et al (2012)
- Cheong et al (2010)- Lotan (2011)
- Starbird et al (2010, 2011) - Palen and Vieweg (2008)
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Mexican Drug War
©Nadav Neuhaus
> 60,000 deaths1
> 230,000 displaced2
1 Semanario Zeta, Dec 12, 2011, 2 Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, 2011,
3 Diego Valle with Official Numbers from PGR, SINAIS, INEGO.
3
3
Calderón Administration
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El Mañana
Mexican Drug War
Crises as everyday life
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Outline
1. Context2. Information War3. Tweeting the War4. Citizen News Curators5. Summary
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Typical Crisis Response
EPI2oh on Flickr
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“Fearing for their lives and the safety of their families, journalists are adhering to a near-complete news blackout, under strict orders of drug smuggling organizations and their enforcers, who dictate via daily telephone calls, emails and news releases what can and cannot be printed or aired.”
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“The news blackout extends to government officials. In Nuevo Laredo, the mayor mysteriously disappears for days and refuses to discuss drug violence. The military general who presides over the soldiers patrolling the city does not hold news conferences, issue statements or answer questions from the media.”
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1 Asociación Mexicana de Internet, 20112 Oxford Internet Institute, 2012
Internet Users1
17% (yr. 2000) 34% (yr. 2010)
34 million users
Social Media1
61% of Internet users
Twitter2
20% of SM users5th largest country
(cc) Lecates on Flickr
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Increased Violence
Weakened Institutions
Social Media
Adoption
Based on photo by Eneas on Flickr
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Outline
1. Context2. Information War3. Tweeting the War4. Citizen News Curators5. Summary
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Information Ecosystem
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AmateurArtGuy on Flickr d∂wn on Flickr
Eduardo Pavon on Flickr
MonterreyPopulation: 4,000,000
ReynosaPopulation: 600,000
VeracruzPopulation: 700,000
Sachavi on Flickr
SaltilloPopulation: 800,000
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City Hashtag Tweets Users
1. Monterrey #mtyfollow211,27
8 27,170
2. Reynosa #reynosafolllow155,78
6 9,043
3. Saltillo #saltillo153,87
9 16,347
4. Veracruz #verfollow 87,801 12,522
Volume
Aug 2010 Nov 2011609,744 tweets
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Content
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Frequency Types of Words Spanish
1 placeszona, san, sur, altura,
garza, col., av.
2 shootings#balacera, balacera,
balazos, detonaciones
3 report reportan
4 people gente, alguien
Content
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City Mentions Retweets
#mtyfollow 20.5% 40.1%#reynosafollo
w 24.8% 15.9%
#saltillo 19.9% 29.9%
#verfollow 22.5% 35.3%
Disseminating > Interacting
Types of messages
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#reynosafollowDaily median: 249
#mtyfollowDaily median: 340
#saltilloDaily median: 219
#verfollowDaily median: 494
spread
Frequency& spread
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Outline
1. Mexican Drug War2. Information War3. Tweeting the War4. Citizen News Curators5. Conclusions
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Who is tweeting?
#reynosafollow#mtyfollow
#saltillo #verfollow
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Curators
Average citizens
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“Angela”
Photo: mr. toaster on Flickr
“Claudia”
Photo:CarbonNYC on Flickr
Followers: 30KTweets: 60KHours/day:
“many”Age: ?
Interviews
Followers: 25KTweets: 35K
Hours/day: 15Age: early 20’s
(in Spanish)
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“Angela”
Photo: mr. toaster on Flickr
“Claudia”
Photo:CarbonNYC on Flickr
“…by chance. I heard on the radio
about how celebrities would interact with their
fans.” (Joined in mid 2009)
How did you get started with Twitter?
“It was through a friend. She
said: ‘you have to go to Twitter!
it’s so cool!’” (Joined in late
2009)
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“Angela”
Photo: mr. toaster on Flickr
“Claudia”
Photo:CarbonNYC on Flickr
“My role on Twitter is that of
yet another citizen. [People] tell me that I’m
like their ‘angel,’ for looking after
them”
How would you describe your role?
“I’m a journalist … It is as if I was
a war correspondent,
on social networks, of the
war we are living in Mexico.”
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“Angela”
Photo: mr. toaster on Flickr
“Claudia”
Photo:CarbonNYC on Flickr
Motivations
“I consider this as a community
service, even though people might laugh
about it.”
“…tweeting is an altruistic community service.”
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“Angela”
Photo: mr. toaster on Flickr
“Claudia”
Photo:CarbonNYC on Flickr
What are your sources ?
“Not all the information comes
from Twitter. There’s a lot of people who
know what I do. They have my number and they call me… they are 100% citizens.”
“Most of the information is from
los tuiteros, my followers. In other
cases, it’s the reporters on TV,
local news...”
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Outline
1. Context2. Information War3. Tweeting the War4. Citizen News Curators5. Summary
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Summary
• Violence, weak institutions, social media adoption civic engagement.
• Citizens form alert networks.• Information ecosystem. • Emergence curators ("war
correspondents“).• Rich opportunities: surfacing
latent hyperlocal communities (CHI ’13).