How journalists verify user-generated content during terrorist crises. Analyzing Twitter communication during the Brussels attacks

Rauchfleisch, Adrian; Artho, Xenia; Metag, Julia; Post, Senja; Schäfer, Mike S.

doi:10.1177/2056305117717888

Cited by 36 publications

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“…Since the objective of this analysis was to provide insights into how social media was used in the context of the disaster, the tweets were analyzed to establish the most popular tweets, based on the number of retweets. While there are a variety of ways to establish tweet popularity, using retweet metrics is a well-established practice (Rafail, 2017;Rauchfleisch, Artho, Metag, Post, & Schäfer, 2017). Ideally, both Facebook and Twitter could be used for analysis; however, Facebook's API does not allow for such analysis.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does compassion go viral? Social media, caring, and the Fort McMurray wildfire

Boulianne

Minaker

Haney

2018

Information, Communication & Society

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In May 2016, an enormous wildfire threatened the city of Fort McMurray, Alberta and forced the evacuation of all of the city's residents. Outpourings of support teemed in from all across Canada and over the world, prompting the largest charitable response in Canadian Red Cross history. This paper examines Albertans' response to the wildfire by exploring caring and helping behaviors as well as the role of social media in facilitating these remarkable charitable efforts. The paper uses mixed methods including an analysis of the most popular Tweets related to the wildfire and an Alberta survey collected months after the disaster. The analysis of tweets reveals that care, concern, and invitations to help were prominent in social media discourse about the wildfire. The analysis of survey data demonstrates that those who followed news about the wildfire on social media express higher overall levels of care and concern for those affected, which led to helping those impacted by the wildfire. The findings provide important insights about the role of social media in disaster relief and recovery as well as citizens' civic engagement.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does compassion go viral? Social media, caring, and the Fort McMurray wildfire

Boulianne

Minaker

Haney

2018

Information, Communication & Society

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“…This considerably reduced the amount of helpful clues that the CAA could collect about the source pages of Facebook videos. Overall, this was another strong case of the well-known Walled Garden issue 36 . The fact that popular Internet platforms such as YouTube and Facebook are in the position to control who has programmatic access to data that is otherwise publicly available makes it very chal-lenging to build automated solutions and tools that could help mitigate the problem of disinformation.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…For example, Rauchfleisch el al. [36] describe how journalists verify UGC during terrorist incidents, by focusing on the Brussels attacks in March 2016 and the dissemination of UGC through Twitter. With respect to Twitter as a social network for serving and disseminating news content, Heravi et al [23] analyse the attitudes of journalists in Ireland in order to come up with a set of patterns and practices to serve as global journalistic standards.…”

Section: Journalistic Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Verification of Web Videos Through Analysis of Their Online Context

Papadopoulou

Zampoglou

Papadopoulos

et al. 2019

Video Verification in the Fake News Era

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This chapter discusses the problem of analysing the online "context" of User Generated Videos (UGVs) with the goal of extracting clues that help analysts with the video verification process. As video context, we refer to information surrounding the video i.e. information about the video itself, user comments below the video, information about the video publisher and any dissemination of the video through other video platforms or social media. As a starting point, we present the Fake Video Corpus, a dataset of debunked and verified UGVs that aims at serving as reference for qualitative and quantitative analysis and evaluation. Next, we present a web-based service, called Context Aggregation and Analysis, which supports the collection, filtering and mining of contextual pieces of information that can serve as verification signals. This service aims to assist Internet users in their video verification efforts.

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“…This information specifically helps journalists to cover terror attacks during the first hours after they occur (Rauchfleisch et al, 2017). This is particularly conspicuous in countries where there is strict censorship and the entry of foreign journalists is prohibited (Harkin et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

Journalists–sources relationship in violent conflicts coverage: Shifting dynamics

Gonen¹

2018

Sociology Compass

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News sources are a major part of news production in times of violent crisis and conflict. They can shape the context in which journalists see and frame the events. The relationship between journalists and their sources during conflicts has received extensive scholarly analysis over the last three decades. This paper addresses the characteristics of this relationship by discussing the power balance between the two sides and presenting a typology of traditional and new news sources used during conflict coverage. Two major trends are concluded: (1) The power dynamics between journalists and news sources during conflict and crisis times are changing and becoming more complex, as sources are more able to influence the news and the boundary between them and journalists are becoming more blurred in today's global digital media environment. (2) New faces and sources are included in news stories, such as terrorists, enemy leaders, and ordinary citizens, enriching the audience with alternative views on the conflict. Although both trends suggest a decrease of dependence on official sources, journalists still rely most on such sources, which maintain some of their control over news flow during conflict.

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How journalists verify user-generated content during terrorist crises. Analyzing Twitter communication during the Brussels attacks

Cited by 36 publications

References 31 publications

Does compassion go viral? Social media, caring, and the Fort McMurray wildfire

Does compassion go viral? Social media, caring, and the Fort McMurray wildfire

Verification of Web Videos Through Analysis of Their Online Context

Journalists–sources relationship in violent conflicts coverage: Shifting dynamics

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