[Air-L] Research in Verifying User Generated Content - Platforms and Initiatives?

[Zara Rahman]

Hi Rebekah,

I'm not involved in it, but Witness' recently launched Media Lab might
be of interest to you - http://lab.witness.org/.

Also, I'm guessing you've already come across Elliot Higgins' excellent
work on social media verification - https://www.bellingcat.com/ - and
the recently launched First Draft Coalition, 'thought leaders and
pioneers in social media journalism', of which Storyful and Bellingcat
are founding members. More info in this blog post.
<https://medium.com/1st-draft/introducing-the-first-draft-coalition-e557fdacd1a6>

I'm involved in a project with the engine room and CIVICUS, looking into
citizen generated data more broadly, called the DataShift - it's not
specifically around human rights violation, but rather around issues of
social justice and sustainable development among civil society. I'd be
happy to chat more about that, if it's relevant.

Hope that helps!

Zara

---
Zara Rahman | @zararah
Centre for Internet and Human Rights


On 03/07/2015 12:35, R.A. Larsen wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> My name is Rebekah Larsen, and I'm a current grad student at the
> University of Cambridge. I'm part of a project researching how to make
> it easier for citizen witnesses of human rights violations to capture
> the attention of journalists and human rights defenders, which
> includes facilitating the verification of social media. More
> information on the project can be found at the link below.
>
> http://www.smhr.sociology.cam.ac.uk/blog/TheWhistleOverview
>
> We are currently surveying the range of online platforms or
> initiatives already being developed with potential for social media
> verification, both commercial (e.g., Storyful) and non-profit (e.g.,
> CheckDesk). If anyone can point me towards any other examples,
> resources, research, etc., it would be much appreciated!
>
> Best, and many thanks,
>
> Rebekah
> _______________________________________________
> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at:
> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
>
> Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
> http://www.aoir.org/