Turning the Spotlight on the Crowd: Examining the Participatory Ethics and Practices of Crisis Mapping

摘要: 'Crisis maps' are crowd sourced web 2.0 maps designed to respond natural disasters and escalating political conflicts. They archetypal maps: interactive, dynamic, public, fuse together different information streams, can employ both custom-built professional platforms homemade software. Crisis work by georeferencing events that occur throughout a crisis, such as reports of damage, needs casualties or protests, fights arrests. Data sources diverse range from news traditional media outlets NGO press releases geotagged Twitter reports, YouTube videos SMS text messages. Hence, at least potentially, any person connected mobile phone internet participate in the generation crisis maps. appeal explicitly participatory ethic order help those need. Drawing upon an explorative sample maps, this paper shines critical spotlight on notions participation mapping discourses, looking sorts crowds participating; rhetoric draws them in; practical ways which people contribute The concludes questioning imaginations bottom-up representation ‘ordinary voices’ ground.