Mar 29 2013
Social media supports the formation of communities that span traditional borders and link together people around topical events. When the topic of discussion is a particular state we can refer to these connected virtual communities as the polycentric virtual equivalent of the corresponding state. Echoing President Kennedy’s Ich bin ein Berliner speech of June 1963, […]
Mar 29 2013
On November 17th, 2011, on its second month anniversary, the OWS movement planned a series of organized activities across Manhattan and the five boroughs of New York City, as a demonstration and celebration of its commitment to action. This was not a spontaneous demonstration, but rather a well-organized event with a set schedule, advertised broadly […]
Jan 21 2013
“The National Mall is now a sea of American flags, waving in celebration of @BarackObama and @VP Biden.”
Aug 23 2011
‘OMG earthquake!’ That is a report from a new type of seismograph, with two feet, two hands, (fully-functioning brain optional) and a Twitter account! Twitter users responded massively to the Mineral, VA earthquake in August 2011. The movie shown here depicts the locations of Twitter references to the earthquake. The early reports are all from […]
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 […]
