Collaboratively Mapping Militarized Borders and Law Enforcement: A Crowdsourced Mobile App

This thesis utilizes concepts of computational and watchdog journalism as a means to map border militarization. The study includes the creation of a mobile app that maps the global, "ground truth" (The GroundTruth Project, 2008), or direct and first-hand observations, of the rise of bord...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Devoid, Alexander David
Other Authors: González de Bustamante, Celeste
Language:en_US
Published: The University of Arizona. 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/625682
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/625682
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Summary:This thesis utilizes concepts of computational and watchdog journalism as a means to map border militarization. The study includes the creation of a mobile app that maps the global, "ground truth" (The GroundTruth Project, 2008), or direct and first-hand observations, of the rise of border building and law-enforcement militarization.