Nov 11 2013
As regular readers of the blog know, we have been spending a lot of time recently looking at social media and the growth in locational information within such media. To this end we are very happy to see one of our papers appear in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science. The paper is entitled […]
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Apr 15 2013
On the 15th April, 2013 the Boston Marathon was hit by two explosions. To view Twitterdoms reaction to the tragic Boston bombings see http://129.174.113.107/tweets?f=bostonterror. Commentary by Richard M. Medina The signature of this attack appears to point toward domestic attackers. Two bombs, twelve seconds from each other, concealed in backpacks at the finish line of […]
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Jan 28 2013
We have just been informed that our paper entitled “Demarcating New Boundaries: Mapping Virtual Polycentric Communities through Social Media Content” has been accepted in Cartography and Geographic Information Science (CaGIS). The abstract for the paper is: The proliferation of social media has led to the emergence of a new type of geospatial information that defies the conventions […]
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Oct 11 2012
The United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF), has just awarded our team the 2012 USGIF Achievement Award for Academic Research for our pioneering work on harvesting geospatial intelligence from social media. This pioneering work has led to the new computational paradigm of GeoSocial Analysis, providing a new understanding of sociocultural dynamics in space and the links among […]
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