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Jesse Blum; Genovefa Kefalidou; Robert Houghton; Martin Flintham; Unna Arunachalam; Murray Goulden |
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Majority report: Citizen empowerment through collaborative sensemaking |
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2014 |
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ISCRAM 2014 Conference Proceedings – 11th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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ISCRAM 2014 |
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767-771 |
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Digital storage; Citizen engagements; Collaborative sensemaking; Crisis informatics; Emergency responders; Narrative; Sensemaking; Sensemaking activities; Social media; Information systems |
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In the past crisis sensemaking activities have primarily been controlled by professional emergency responders and the media. Social media, however, has the potential to see a shift towards more grassroots and ad hoc citizen engagement. This paper sets out our vision and our progress in implementation of a new online platform called 'Majority Report', which aims to empower citizen sensemaking activities around crisis events. The concept is to facilitate citizen volunteers to draw together a range of digital media (photographs, Tweets, videos, etc.) to present stories of crisis events, and thus demarcate arguments about different understandings in terms of the temporal ordering of event narrative components and their relations to each other. Through collaborative usages of the platform, accounts may be improved by others, and variants may be presented and compared to challenge existing assumptions and beliefs. |
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Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom |
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The Pennsylvania State University |
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University Park, PA |
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S.R. Hiltz, M.S. Pfaff, L. Plotnick, and P.C. Shih. |
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English |
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English |
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2411-3387 |
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9780692211946 |
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Social Media in Crisis Response and Management |
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11th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management |
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330 |
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