1. ActivismBotViz
Empowering Collaborations between Activists and
Bots via Data Visualization
Carlos Toxtli, Claudia Flores-Saviaga, Alejandra Monroy, Flor Aguilar, Juan Pablo Flores, Shloka Desai,
Asesores: Norma Elva Chavez, Saiph Savage.
West Virginia University,
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM),
Stanford University
2. Social Media and Activists
Social media for activism is becoming increasing popular. From the Arab
Spring to #BlackLivesMatter, social media is used to bring awareness to
causes and even dispatch tasks to help the cause.
3. Social Media, Activism, a
Recently, online bots have been used to coordin
volunteers and help activists produce action at
4. But understanding the emerging collaborations is
difficult. Activists usually have to go through and
analyze large amounts of data.
Hard to understand strengths of new
collaborators or where friction in the
collaboration is emerging
7. ActivismBotViz: Data
Visualizations
The Diversity view shows the diversity of
the topics that people are interested.
The Stalling view shows the citizens that delay
the collective effort of the bots+volunteers.