Crowdsourcing

McCreadie, Macdonald and Ounis discuss the use of social media platforms, such as Twitter, to track significant events. Emergency response agencies are increasingly looking to social media as a source of real-time information about such events.

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This article details how a public request by the FBI for photos and videos of the Boston bombing scene morphed into a digital witch hunt. The fears, prejudices and suspicions of the crowd resulted in a digital witch hunt with guilt and innocence were based on circumstantial evidence.

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