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Leysia Palen
Researcher at University of Colorado Boulder
Publications - 119
Citations - 15383
Leysia Palen is an academic researcher from University of Colorado Boulder. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social media & Computer-supported cooperative work. The author has an hindex of 57, co-authored 118 publications receiving 14431 citations. Previous affiliations of Leysia Palen include University of California & University of California, Irvine.
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Microblogging during two natural hazards events: what twitter may contribute to situational awareness
TL;DR: Analysis of microblog posts generated during two recent, concurrent emergency events in North America via Twitter, a popular microblogging service, aims to inform next steps for extracting useful, relevant information during emergencies using information extraction (IE) techniques.
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Unpacking "privacy" for a networked world
Leysia Palen,Paul Dourish +1 more
TL;DR: A model of privacy as a dynamic, dialectic process is outlined, and three tensions that govern interpersonal privacy management in everyday life are discussed, and these are used to explore select technology case studies drawn from the research literature.
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Twitter adoption and use in mass convergence and emergency events
Amanda Lee Hughes,Leysia Palen +1 more
TL;DR: The findings suggest that Twitter messages sent during these types of events contain more displays of information broadcasting and brokerage, and that general Twitter use seems to have evolved over time to offer more of an information-sharing purpose.
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"Voluntweeters": self-organizing by digital volunteers in times of crisis
Kate Starbird,Leysia Palen +1 more
TL;DR: This empirical study of "digital volunteers" in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake describes their behaviors and mechanisms of self-organizing in the information space of a microblogging environment, where collaborators were newly found and distributed across continents.
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Citizen communications in crisis: anticipating a future of ICT-supported public participation
Leysia Palen,Sophia B. Liu +1 more
TL;DR: Drawing on disaster social science, a critical aspect of post-impact disaster response that does not yet receive much information science research attention is considered, with a focus on persistent citizen communications as one form of interaction in this arena.