{"505601":{"#nid":"505601","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center Brown Bag Seminar Series - Andr\u00e9s Monroy-Hern\u00e1ndez","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAndr\u00e9s Monroy-Hern\u00e1ndez\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMicrosoft Research\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECollaborative News: From \u201cNarcotweets\u201d to Journalism-as-a-Service\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHow do people living in the midst of war use social media, and what can we learn from them to design the next generation of news technologies?\u0026nbsp; In this presentation, I start by narrating how residents of cities afflicted by the Mexican Drug War use social media to circumvent censorship imposed by powerful drug cartels. I show how these people have created effective alert networks to generate real-time reports of violent events, and how some individuals have emerged as a new type of \u201cwar correspondent.\u201d I end by presenting a number of civic technologies we have developed inspired by this research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAndr\u00e9s Monroy-Hern\u00e1ndez is a researcher at Microsoft Research, and an affiliate professor at the University of Washington. His work focuses on the design and study of social computing systems for large scale collaboration. His research has received best paper awards at several computing conferences, recognized at Ars Electronica, and featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, NPR, and Wired. Andr\u00e9s was named one of the TR35 Innovators by the MIT Technology Review (Spanish), and one of CNET\u0027s influential Latinos in Tech. He holds a Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab, where he led the creation of the Scratch Online Community website.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHow do people living in the midst of war use social media, and what can we learn from them to design the next generation of news technologies?\u0026nbsp; In this presentation, I start by narrating how residents of cities afflicted by the Mexican Drug War use social media to circumvent censorship imposed by powerful drug cartels.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Collaborative News: From \u201cNarcotweets\u201d to Journalism-as-a-Service"}],"uid":"27592","created_gmt":"2016-02-24 11:22:02","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:30","author":"Joshua Preston","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-02-25T10:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2016-02-25T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-02-25T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-02-25 15:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-02-25 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-02-25 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"hg_media":{"505611":{"id":"505611","type":"image","title":"Andr\u00e9s Monroy-Hern\u00e1ndez, Microsoft Research","body":null,"created":"1456760341","gmt_created":"2016-02-29 15:39:01","changed":"1475895265","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:25","alt":"Andr\u00e9s Monroy-Hern\u00e1ndez, Microsoft Research","file":{"fid":"204832","name":"andres_monroy-hernandez.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/andres_monroy-hernandez_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/andres_monroy-hernandez_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":113593,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/andres_monroy-hernandez_0.jpg?itok=0KXu0V90"}}},"media_ids":["505611"],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4096","name":"brown bag"},{"id":"1946","name":"GVU"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}