Kate Starbird

Andrew Beers, Sarah Nguyên, Kate Starbird, Jevin D. West, and Emma S. Spiro. (2023). Selective and deceptive citation in the construction of dueling consensuses.  Science Advances.

Kate Starbird, Renee DiResta, and Matt DeButts. (2023). Influence and Improvisation: Participatory Disinformation during the 2020 U.S. Election.  Social Media + Society’s Special Issue on “Political Influencers”. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231177943

Stephen Prochaska, Kayla Duskin, Zarine Kharazian, Carly Minow, Stephanie Blucker, Sylvie Venuto, Jevin West, and Kate Starbird. (2023). Mobilizing Manufactured Reality: How Participatory Disinformation Shaped Deep Stories to Catalyze Action during the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.  Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7(CSCW), Article 140. https://doi.org/10.1145/3579616

Joseph S. Schafer, Kate Starbird, Daniela K. Rosner. (2023). Participatory Design and Power in Misinformation, Disinformation, and Online Hate Research.  ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS, 2023).

Andrew Beers, Joseph S. Schafer, Ian Kennedy, Morgan Wack, Emma S. Spiro, and Kate Starbird. (2023). Followback Clusters, Satellite Audiences, and Bridge Nodes: Coengagement Networks for the 2020 US Election.  Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2023).

Himanshu Zade, Spencer Williams, Theresa T. Tran, Christina Smith, Sukrit Venkatagiri, Gary Hsieh, and Kate Starbird. (2023). To Reply or to Quote: Comparing Conversational Framing Strategies on Twitter.  ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies.

Himanshu Zade, Megan Woodruff, Erika Johnson, Mariah Stanley, Zhennan Zhou, Minh Tu Huynh, Alissa Elizabeth Acheson, Gary Hsieh, and Kate Starbird. (2023). Tweet Trajectory and AMPS-based Contextual Cues can Help Users Identify Misinformation.  Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7(CSCW1), Article 103 (April 2023), 27 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3579536

Andrew Beers, Tom Wilson, and Kate Starbird. (2022). The Demographics of an International Influence Operation Affecting Facebook Users in the United States.  Journal of Online Trust & Safety 1 no. 4, DOI: 10.54501/jots.v1i4.55

Himanshu Zade, Morgan Wack, Martin Zhang, Kate Starbird, Ryan Calo, Jason Young, Jevin D. West. (2022). Auditing Google’s Search Headlines as a Potential Gateway to Misleading Content: Evidence from the 2020 US Election.  Journal of Online Trust & Safety 1 no. 4, DOI: 10.54501/jots.v1i4.72

Ian Kennedy, Morgan Wack, Andrew Beers, Joey Schafer, Isabella Garcia Camargo, Emma S. Spiro, and Kate Starbird. (2022). Repeat Spreaders and Election Delegitimization: A Comprehensive Dataset of Misinformation Tweets from the 2020 U.S. Election.  Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2.

Joseph B Bak-Coleman, Ian Kennedy, Morgan Wack, Andrew Beers, Joseph S. Schafer, Emma Spiro, Kate Starbird, and Jevin West. (2022). Combining Interventions to Reduce the Spread of Viral Misinformation.  Nature Human Behavior, 2022.

Melinda McClure Haughey, Martina Povolo, Kate Starbird. (2022). Bridging Contextual and Methodological Gaps on the “Misinformation Beat”: Insights from Journalist-Researcher Collaborations at Speed.  2022 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'22).

Ryan Calo, Chris Coward, Emma S. Spiro, Kate Starbird, and Jevin D. West (2021). How do you solve a problem like misinformation?  Science Advances 7, no. 50 (2021): eabn0481.

Tom Wilson and Kate Starbird. (2021). Multi-platform Information Operations: Mobilizing Narratives & Building Resilience through ‘Big’ & ‘Alt’ Tech.  PACMHCI. 5, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2021).

Tom Wilson and Kate Starbird. (2020). Cross-Platform Disinformation Campaigns: Lessons Learned and Next Steps.  The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review.

Kate Starbird, Ahmer Arif, Tom Wilson. (2019). Disinformation as Collaborative Work: Surfacing the Participatory Nature of Strategic Information Operation.  PACMHCI. 3, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2019). Article 127.

Ahmer Arif, Leo G. Stewart, and Kate Starbird. (2018). Acting the Part: Examining Information Operations within #BlackLivesMatter Discourse.  PACMHCI. 2, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2018). Article 20.

Tom Wilson, Kaitlyn Zhou, and Kate Starbird. (2018). Assembling Strategic Narratives: Information Operations as Collaborative Work within an Online Community.  PACMHCI. 2, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2018). Article 183.

Kate Starbird, Ahmer Arif, Tom Wilson, Katherine Van Koevering, Katya Yefimova, and Daniel Scarnecchia. (2018). Ecosystem or Echo-System? Exploring Content Sharing across Alternative Media Domains.  Presented at Eleventh International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2018), Stanford, CA.

Kate Starbird, Dharma Dailey, Owla Mohamed, Gina Lee, and Emma S. Spiro. (2018). Engage Early, Correct More: How Journalists Participate in False Rumors Online during Crisis Events.  In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, p. 105. ACM, 2018.

Leo G. Stewart, Ahmer Arif, A. Conrad Nied, Emma S. Spiro, and Kate Starbird. (2017). Drawing the Lines of Contention: Networked Frame Contests Within #BlackLivesMatter Discourse.  PACMHCI. 1, CSCW, Article 122 (November), 23 pages.

Kate Starbird. (2017). Examining the Alternative Media Ecosystem through the Production of Alternative Narratives of Mass Shooting Events on Twitter.  Presented at Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2017), Montreal, Canada.

Kaitlyn Zhou, Tom Wilson, Kate Starbird, Emma Spiro. (2023). Spotlight Tweets: A Lens for Exploring Attention Dynamics within Online Sensemaking during Crisis Events.  ACM Transactions on Social Computing (2023). https://doi.org/10.1145/3577213

Kate Starbird, Emma S. Spiro, & Kolina Koltai. (2020). Misinformation, Crisis, and Public Health—Reviewing the Literature  Social Science Research Council, MediaWell. June, 25, 2020.

Ahmer Arif, John Robinson, Stephanie Stanek, Elodie Fichet, Paul Townsend, Zena Worku and Kate Starbird. (2017). A Closer Look at the Self-Correcting Crowd: Examining Corrections in Online Rumors.  In Proceedings of the ACM 2017 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '17).

Kate Starbird, Emma Spiro, Isabelle Edwards, Kaitlyn Zhou, Jim Maddock, and Sindhuja Narasimhan. (2016). Could This Be True?: I Think So! Expressed Uncertainty in Online Rumoring.  In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 360-371.

Cynthia Andrews, Elodie Fichet, Stella Ding, Emma Spiro, and Kate Starbird. (2016). Keeping Up with the Tweet-Dashians: The Impact of ‘Official’ Accounts on Online Rumoring.  Presented at ACM 2016 Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2016).

Ahmer Arif, Kelley Shanahan, Fang-Ju Chou, Yoanna Dosouto, Kate Starbird, Emma Spiro (2016). How Information Snowballs: Exploring the Role of Exposure in Online Rumor Propagation.  Presented at ACM 2016 Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2016).

Li Zeng, Kate Starbird and Emma Spiro. (2016). Rumors at the Speed of Light? Modeling the Rate of Rumor Transmission during Crisis.  Presented at Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2016).

Kate Starbird, Emma Spiro, Ahmer Arif, Fang-Ju Chou, Sindhuja Narisimhan, Jim Maddock, Kelley Shanahan and John Robinson. (2015). Expressed Uncertainty and Denials as Signals of Online Rumoring.  Presented at Collective Intelligence 2015, San Francisco, CA.

Jim Maddock, Starbird, K., Al-Hassani, H., Sandoval, D., Orand, M., & Mason, R.M. (2015). Characterizing Online Rumoring Behavior Using Multi-Dimensional Signatures.  Proceedings of the ACM 2015 Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2015), Vancouver, Canada.

Huang, L., Starbird, K., Orand, M., Stanek, S., and Pedersen, H. (2015). Connected Through Crisis: Emotional Proximity and the Spread of Misinformation Online.  Proceedings of the ACM 2015 Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2015), Vancouver, Canada.

Dailey, D. and Starbird, K. (2014). Visible Skepticism: Community Vetting after Hurricane Irene.  Short Paper. 2014 Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Conference (ISCRAM 2014), Penn State University.

Starbird, K., Maddock, J., Orand, M., Achterman, P., & Mason, R.M. (2014). Rumors, False Flags, and Digital Vigilantes: Misinformation on Twitter after the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings.  Short paper. iConference 2014.

Li Zeng, Dharma Dailey, Owla Mohamed, Kate Starbird and Emma S. Spiro. (2019). Detecting Journalism in the Age of Social Media: Three Experiments in Classifying Journalists on Twitter. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2019). Munich, Germany.

Jim Maddock, Kate Starbird and Robert M. Mason. (2015). Using Historical Twitter Data for Research: Ethical Challenges of Tweet Deletions.  Presented at CSCW ’15 Workshop on Ethics at the 2015 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2015), Vancouver, Canada.

Van Wyk, Hannah, Osiris Cruz-Antonio, Diana Quintero-Perez, Sayra Damian Garcia, Rachel Davidson, James Kendra, and Kate Starbird. (2023). Searching for Signal and Borrowing Wi-Fi: Understanding Disaster-related Adaptations to Telecommunications Disruptions through Social Media. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 103548.

Rachel A. Davidson, James Kendra, Bradley Ewing, Linda K. Nozick, Kate Starbird, Zachary Cox & Maggie Leon-Corwin (2022). Managing disaster risk associated with critical infrastructure systems: a system-level conceptual framework for research and policy guidance. Civil Engineering and Environmental Systems, DOI: 10.1080/10286608.2022.2067848

Himanshu Zade, Kushal Shah, Vaibhavi Rangarajan, Priyanka Kshirsagar, Muhammad Imran, and Kate Starbird. (2018). From Situational Awareness to Actionability: Towards Improving the Utility of Social Media Data for Crisis Response.  PACMHCI. 2, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2018). Article 195.

Dharma Dailey and Kate Starbird. (2017). Social Media Seamsters: Stitching Platforms & Audiences into Local Crisis Infrastructure.  In Proceedings of the ACM 2017 Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW '17).

Dharma Dailey and Kate Starbird. (2016). Addressing the Information Needs of Crisis-Affected Communities: The Interplay of Legacy Media and Social Media in a Rural Disaster.  In The Communications Crisis in America, and How to Fix It. Friedland L. and Lloyd, M. editors. Palgrave MacMillan.

Elodie Fichet, John Robinson, Dharma Dailey and Kate Starbird (2016). Eyes on the Ground: Emerging Practices in Periscope Use during Crisis Events.  Presented at the 2016 Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Conference (ISCRAM 2016), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. May 22-25, 2016.

John Robinson, Jim Maddock and Kate Starbird (2015). Examining the Role of Human and Technical Infrastructure during Emergency Response.  Presented at the 2015 Information Systems for Crisis Response & Management Conference (ISCRAM 2015), Kristiansand, Norway. May 24-27, 2015.

Dailey, D. and Starbird, K. (2014). Journalists as Crowdsourcerers: Responding to Crisis by Reporting with a Crowd.  Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Special Issue: Crisis Informatics and Collaboration, Dec 2014, 23(4-6), 445-481.

Starbird, K., Dailey, D., Walker,A.H., Leschine, T.M., Pavia, R., and Bostrom, A. (2014). Social Media, Public Participation, and the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.  Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal.

Cobb, C., McCarthy, T., Perkins, A., Bharadwaj, A., Comis, J., Do, B., & Starbird, K. (2014). Designing for the Deluge: Understanding & Supporting the Distributed, Collaborative Work of Crisis Volunteers.  Proceedings of the ACM 2013 Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2014), Baltimore, MD.

Starbird, Kate. (2013). Delivering Patients to Sacré Coeur: Collective Intelligence in Digital Volunteer Communities.  Proceedings of the ACM 2013 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013), Paris, France.

Starbird, Kate and Leysia Palen. (2013). Working & Sustaining the Virtual “Disaster Desk.”  Proceedings of the ACM 2013 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2013), San Antonio, TX, pp. 491-502.

Starbird, Kate. (2012). Crowdwork, Crisis and Convergence: How the Connected Crowd Organizes Information during Mass Disruption Events.  Dissertation. University of Colorado.

Starbird, Kate and Leysia Palen. (2012). (How) Will the Revolution be Retweeted? Information Diffusion and the 2011 Egyptian Uprising.  Proceedings of the ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2012).

Starbird, K., Muzny, G., & Palen, L. (2012, April). Learning from the crowd: Collaborative filtering techniques for identifying on-the-ground Twitterers during mass disruptions.  Proceedings of ISCRAM 2012.

Sarcevic, Aleskandra, Leysia Palen, Joanne White, Mossaab Bagdouri, Kate Starbird, Kenneth M. Anderson, (2012). “Beacons of Hope” in Decentralized Coordination: Learning from On-the-Ground Medical Twitterers During the 2010 Haiti Earthquake.  Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Bellevue, WA.

Starbird, Kate and Leysia Palen. (2011). “Voluntweeters”: Self-Organizing by Digital Volunteers in Times of Crisis.  Proceedings of the ACM 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2011), Vancouver, CA.

Starbird, Kate, Leysia Palen, Amanda L Hughes, and Sarah Vieweg. (2010). Chatter on The Red: What Hazards Threat Reveals about the Social Life of Microblogged Information.  Proceedings of the ACM 2010 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2010), Savannah, GA, pp. 241-250.

Vieweg, Sarah, Amanda L. Hughes, Kate Starbird, and Leysia Palen. (2010). A Comparison of Microblogging Behavior in Two Natural Hazards Events: What Twitter May Contribute to Situational Awareness.  Proceedings of the ACM 2010 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2010), Atlanta, GA, pp. 1079-1088.

Starbird, Kate and Leysia Palen. (2010). Pass It On?: Retweeting in Mass Emergencies.  Presented at the 2010 Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Conference (ISCRAM 2010), Seattle, WA.

Starbird, Kate and Jeannie Stamberger. (2010). Tweak the Tweet: Leveraging Microblogging Proliferation with a Prescriptive Grammar to Support Citizen Reporting.  Presented at the 2010 Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management Conference (ISCRAM 2010), Seattle, WA.

Kolovson, Samantha, Calvin Liang, Sean A. Munson, and Kate Starbird. (2020). Personal Data and Power Asymmetries in US Collegiate Sports Teams.  Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 4, no. GROUP (2020): 1-27.