Characterizing Online Rumoring Behavior Using Multi-Dimensional Signatures. Maddock, J., Starbird, K., Al-Hassani, H., Sandoval, D., Orand, M., & Mason, R.M. CSCW 2015, Vancouver, BC (March 2015). Request
Connected Through Crisis: Emotional Proximity and the Spread of Misinformation Online. Huang, L., Starbird, K., Orand, M., Stanek, S., and Pedersen, H. CSCW 2015, Vancouver, BC (March 2015). Request
Journalists as Crowdsourcerers: Responding to Crisis by Reporting with a Crowd. Dailey, D. and Starbird, K. Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Special Issue: Crisis Informatics and Collaboration, Dec 2014, 23(4-6), 445-481. Request Link
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. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal, 08 Aug 2014. Request Link
Visible Skepticism: Community Vetting after Hurricane Irene. Short Paper. Dailey, D. and Starbird, K. 2014 Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Conference (ISCRAM 2014),, Penn State University (May, 2014). PDF
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. Proceedings of the ACM 2013 Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2014), Baltimore, MD (March 2014). PDF
Rumors, False Flags, and Digital Vigilantes: Misinformation on Twitter after the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings.Short paper. Starbird, K., Maddock, J., Orand, M., Achterman, P., & Mason, R.M. iConference 2014, Berlin, Germany (March 2014). PDF
Delivering Patients to Sacré Coeur: Collective Intelligence in Digital Volunteer Communities. Starbird, Kate. Proceedings of the ACM 2013 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013), Paris, France (May 2013). PDF
Working & Sustaining the Virtual “Disaster Desk.” Starbird, Kate and Leysia Palen. Proceedings of the ACM 2013 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2013), San Antonio, TX, pp. 491-502. (February 2013). Best Paper Award. PDF
Crowdwork, Crisis and Convergence: How the Connected Crowd Organizes Information during Mass Disruption Events.Dissertation. Starbird, Kate. University of Colorado. (2012). PDF
(How) Will the Revolution be Retweeted? Information Diffusion and the 2011 Egyptian Uprising. Starbird, Kate and Leysia Palen. Proceedings of the ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2012), Bellevue, WA (February 2012). PDF
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. In Christine Hagar (Ed.), Crisis Information Management: Communication and Technologies, Cambridge, UK: Woodhead Publishing Limited. (2012). Link
“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 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Bellevue, WA, (February 2012). PDF
“Voluntweeters”: Self-Organizing by Digital Volunteers in Times of Crisis. Starbird, Kate and Leysia Palen. Proceedings of the ACM 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011), Vancouver, BC, (May 2011). Honorable Mention Award. PDF
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. Proceedings of the ACM 2010 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2010), Savannah, GA, pp. 241-250. (February 2010). Honorable Mention Award. PDF
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. Proceedings of the ACM 2010 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2010), Atlanta, GA, pp. 1079-1088. (April 2010). PDF
Pass It On?: Retweeting in Mass Emergencies. Starbird, Kate and Leysia Palen. Presented at the 2010 Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Conference (ISCRAM 2010), Seattle, WA (May 2010). PDF
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 (May 2010). PDF
