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Designing Networks for Innovation and Improvisation pp 141–150Cite as

The Citizen IS the Journalist: Automatically Extracting News from the Swarm

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User generated content has become a major trend in today’s journalistic ecosystem, where in many cases news arrive on social media platforms even before they reach mainstream media. Due to today’s hyperconnected society, this type of event is becoming more frequent, and “news-like” information is being produced all over the Internet on blogs, posted on Facebook or Twitter, Wikipedia, or any other platform that allows users to share their ideas and experiences. In this chapter, we describe SwarmPulse, a system that extracts news by combing through Wikipedia and Twitter to extract newsworthy items. We measured the accuracy of SwarmPulse comparing it against the Reuters and CNN RSS feeds and the Google News feed. We found precision of 83 % and recall of 15 % against these sources.

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  • News Item
  • Twitter User
  • News Channel
  • Breaking News
  • Match Strength

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    The reader can try out the prototype version of SwarmPulse at swarmpulse.galaxyadvisors.com.

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  1. Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil

    João Marcos de Oliveira

  2. MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Peter A. Gloor

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  1. Department of Information Systems & Social Networks, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

    Matthäus P. Zylka

  2. Department of Information Systems & Social Networks, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

    Hauke Fuehres

  3. Department of Enterprise Engineering, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Rome, Italy

    Andrea Fronzetti Colladon

  4. MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Peter A. Gloor

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de Oliveira, J.M., Gloor, P.A. (2016). The Citizen IS the Journalist: Automatically Extracting News from the Swarm. In: Zylka, M., Fuehres, H., Fronzetti Colladon, A., Gloor, P. (eds) Designing Networks for Innovation and Improvisation. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42697-6_14

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