Emergent Digital Practices

In their study, “Credibility Ranking of Tweets during High Impact Events,” authors Aditi Gupta and Ponnurangam Kumaraguru “analyzed the credibility of information in corresponding to fourteen high impact news events of 2011 around the globe.” According to their analysis, “30% of total tweets about an event contained situational information about the event while 14% was spam.” In addition, about 17% of total tweets contained situational awareness information that was credible. Full paper available