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dc.contributor.authorDowd, Caitriona
dc.contributor.authorJustino, Patricia
dc.contributor.authorKishi, Roudabeh
dc.contributor.authorMarchais, Gauthier
dc.coverage.spatialKenyaen
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-20T10:48:18Z
dc.date.available2018-12-20T10:48:18Z
dc.date.issued2018-12-20
dc.identifier.citationDowd, C.; Justino, P.; Kishi, R. and Marchais, G. (2018) Comparing ‘New’ and ‘Old’ Media for Violence Monitoring and Crisis Response in Kenya, IDS Working Paper 520, Brighton: IDSen
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-78118-505-6
dc.identifier.issn2040-0209
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/14201
dc.description.abstractSocial media and digital technologies are changing the way information about political violence is collected, disseminated, analysed and understood. Effective early warning and crisis response increasingly depends on the availability of timely, reliable reports of violence, and a growing body of research on violence relies on the availability of reliable violent event data to understand patterns, dynamics and trajectories of violence. While biases in traditional media – newspapers and print media – have been analysed and documented in the literature, there is relatively little information about biases in relation to new and emerging sources of data. This paper seeks to determine the comparative opportunities and limitations of ‘new’ and ‘old’ data sources for early warning, crisis response, and violence research. We compare the information set produced through social media violence reporting with conventional violence reporting around the August and October 2017 Kenyan elections. Specifically, we leverage data from a sample of social media reports of violence through public posts to Twitter. These reports are compared with events coded from media and published sources coded by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) along three dimensions: (1) the geography of violence reporting; (2) the temporality of reporting; and (3) the targeting of reporting.en
dc.description.sponsorshipEconomic and Social Research Councilen
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherIDSen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIDS Working Paper;520
dc.rightsThis is an Open Access paper distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited and any modifications or adaptations are indicated. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcodeen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectPolitics and Poweren
dc.subjectSecurity and Conflicten
dc.subjectTechnologyen
dc.titleComparing ‘New’ and ‘Old’ Media for Violence Monitoring and Crisis Response in Kenyaen
dc.typeIDS Working Paperen
dc.rights.holderIDSen
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This is an Open Access paper distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited and any modifications or adaptations are indicated. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
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