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Overview

Kate Starbird is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the intersection of social sciences and computer science, with significant contributions to understanding misinformation, social media dynamics, and political communication.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Computer Science

Within these fields, Starbird has worked extensively in related subfields such as:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Communication
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Systems
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Their research topics cover a variety of areas in social media and misinformation, including:

  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
  • Public Relations and Crisis Communication
  • Complex Network Analysis Techniques
  • Media Studies and Communication
  • Media Influence and Politics

Starbird has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed papers, some of which include:

  • "Combining interventions to reduce the spread of viral misinformation", 2022, published in Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Cross-Platform Disinformation Campaigns: Lessons Learned and Next Steps", 2020, published in Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review
  • "#Unconfirmed: Classifying Rumor Stance in Crisis-Related Social Media Messages", 2021, published in Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • "Influence and Improvisation: Participatory Disinformation during the 2020 US Election", 2023, published in Social Media + Society
  • "On the Misinformation Beat", 2020, published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

The venues where Starbird frequently publishes include:

  • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
  • Science Advances
  • Journal of Quantitative Description Digital Media

Frequent collaborators in their research projects are:

  • Emma S. Spiro
  • Joseph S. Schafer
  • Andrew Beers
  • Jevin D. West
  • Morgan Wack

Best Publications

  • Microblogging during two natural hazards events: what twitter may contribute to situational awareness

    Sarah Vieweg;Amanda L. Hughes;Kate Starbird;Leysia Palen

  • "Voluntweeters": self-organizing by digital volunteers in times of crisis

    Kate Starbird;Leysia Palen

  • Chatter on the red: what hazards threat reveals about the social life of microblogged information

    Kate Starbird;Leysia Palen;Amanda L. Hughes;Sarah Vieweg

  • (How) will the revolution be retweeted?: information diffusion and the 2011 Egyptian uprising

    Kate Starbird;Leysia Palen

  • Rumors, False Flags, and Digital Vigilantes: Misinformation on Twitter after the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing

    Kate Starbird;Jim Maddock;Mania Orand;Peg Achterman

  • Pass It On?: Retweeting in Mass Emergency

    Kate Starbird;Leysia Palen

  • Disinformation as Collaborative Work: Surfacing the Participatory Nature of Strategic Information Operations

    Kate Starbird;Ahmer Arif;Tom Wilson

  • Examining the Alternative Media Ecosystem Through the Production of Alternative Narratives of Mass Shooting Events on Twitter

    Kate Starbird

  • Disinformation’s spread: bots, trolls and all of us

    Kate Starbird

  • Connected Through Crisis: Emotional Proximity and the Spread of Misinformation Online

    Y. Linlin Huang;Kate Starbird;Mania Orand;Stephanie A. Stanek

  • Tweak the Tweet: Leveraging Microblogging Proliferation with a Prescriptive Syntax to Support Citizen Reporting

    Kate Starbird;Jeannie A. Stamberger

  • Twitter‐based information distribution during the 2009 Red River Valley flood threat

    Leysia Palen;Kate Starbird;Sarah Vieweg;Amanda Hughes

  • Acting the Part: Examining Information Operations Within #BlackLivesMatter Discourse

    Ahmer Arif;Leo Graiden Stewart;Kate Starbird

  • Learning from the crowd: Collaborative filtering techniques for identifying on-the-ground Twitterers during mass disruptions.

    Kate Starbird;Grace Muzny;Leysia Palen

  • Working and sustaining the virtual "Disaster Desk"

    Kate Starbird;Leysia Palen

  • "Beacons of hope" in decentralized coordination: learning from on-the-ground medical twitterers during the 2010 Haiti earthquake

    Aleksandra Sarcevic;Leysia Palen;Joanne White;Kate Starbird

  • Characterizing Online Rumoring Behavior Using Multi-Dimensional Signatures

    Jim Maddock;Kate Starbird;Haneen J. Al-Hassani;Daniel E. Sandoval

  • Designing for the deluge: understanding & supporting the distributed, collaborative work of crisis volunteers

    Camille Cobb;Ted McCarthy;Annuska Perkins;Ankitha Bharadwaj

  • From Situational Awareness to Actionability: Towards Improving the Utility of Social Media Data for Crisis Response

    Himanshu Zade;Kushal Shah;Vaibhavi Rangarajan;Priyanka Kshirsagar

  • A Closer Look at the Self-Correcting Crowd: Examining Corrections in Online Rumors

    Ahmer Arif;John J. Robinson;Stephanie A. Stanek;Elodie S. Fichet

  • How Information Snowballs: Exploring the Role of Exposure in Online Rumor Propagation

    Ahmer Arif;Kelley Shanahan;Fang-Ju Chou;Yoanna Dosouto

  • Keeping Up with the Tweet-dashians: The Impact of 'Official' Accounts on Online Rumoring

    Cynthia Andrews;Elodie Fichet;Yuwei Ding;Emma S. Spiro

Frequent Co-Authors

Leysia Palen
Leysia Palen University of Colorado Boulder
Ann Bostrom
Ann Bostrom University of Washington
Filippo Menczer
Filippo Menczer Indiana University
Prasenjit Mitra
Prasenjit Mitra Pennsylvania State University
Ingmar Weber
Ingmar Weber Saarland University
Jennifer Golbeck
Jennifer Golbeck University of Maryland, College Park
Brent Hecht
Brent Hecht Northwestern University
Ben Shneiderman
Ben Shneiderman University of Maryland, College Park
Linda K. Nozick
Linda K. Nozick Cornell University
Loren Terveen
Loren Terveen University of Minnesota

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