Nov 11 2013
Our work exploring how social media can be used to study events around the world has resulted in a new publication in the Social Science Computer Review entitled “International Relations: State-Driven and Citizen-Driven Networks.” In essence what we are attempting to do is compare traditional international relations (e.g. from the United Nations General Assembly voting […]
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 […]
Jun 01 2012
Following on from our work on harvesting ambient geospatial information (AGI) from social media feeds we have started to explore the Occupy Wall Street movement. The movie below shows just one part of this work, specifically the movement of the protesters in New York during the Action Day (November 17) from Wall Street to Brooklyn Bridge. The […]
We recently had a paper entitled “Cancer and Social Media: A Comparison of Traffic about Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, and Other Reproductive Cancers on Twitter and Instagram” published in the Journal of Health Communication. In the paper we present a comparative study of differences in messaging for women’s and men’s cancer campaigns on social media […]
We recently had a paper entitled “Social Media Engagement with Cancer Awareness Campaigns Declined During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election” published in World Medical and Health Policy. In the paper we show through the analysis of Twitter and Google Trends, how public engagement with breast cancer and prostate cancer awareness months between 2015 and 2016 […]
Building on our work on narratives and social media at the 15th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD’17) we have a paper entitled: “Predicting the Evolution of Narratives in Social Media.” In the paper we discuss briefly the challenges that social media poses with respect to understanding narratives and propose a framework that […]
Continuing our work on geosocial analysis we recently had a paper entitled “Zika in Twitter: Temporal Variations of Locations, Actors, and Concepts” published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR): Public Health and Surveillance. In the paper we explored how health narratives and event storylines pertaining to the recent Zika outbreak emerged in social media […]
In the recently released “The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology” we were asked to write a brief entry entitled “geovisualization of social media“. Below is a summary of our chapter: The proliferation of social media over the last decade is presenting substantial computational challenges associated with the management, processing, analysis […]
Continuing our work with crowdsourcing and geosocial analysis we recently had a paper published in a special issue of the Built Environment journal entitled “User-Generated Big Data and Urban Morphology.” The theme of the special issue is: “Big Data and the City” which was guest edited by Mike Batty and includes 12 papers. To quote […]
Following on with our GeoSocial Analysis work, we recently had a paper published in PLOS ONE entitled “Crowdsourcing A Collective Sense of Place.” In the paper we discuss and showcase how one can take a quantitative approach to derive a collective sense of place from Twitter contributions and also from corresponding Wikipedia entries.To illustrate this […]
