Infrastructure Week (🤞?) is the perfect time for the new piece @jostehlin and I have out in @theAAG Annals! "Mesoscale Infrastructures and Uneven Development: Bicycle Sharing Systems in the United States as 'Already Splintered' Urbanism" 50 eprints here: https://t.co/Thy02Q2s9Z
Tech firms shape cities to generate data for their digital products, creating a feedback loop: they invest in urban property & design spaces that capture and reinforce consumer preferences.
New open-access paper w/ Anthony Levenda & @aliciacsabatino
https://t.co/DCy0PodcRr
Dr. Will Payne @willbpayne was featured on Rutgers Today for his #research about #review#bombing published in @BigDataSoc. “Simply put, everything you think you know about review bombing is wrong.” Read more: https://t.co/QgYZaNMLYn
Tomorrow (10/29): CEGU welcomes Professor Julie Michelle Klinger for her talk, "Wasting & Wanting: An Extractive Supply Chain Approach to Outer Space Geographies." See below or visit our website for details.
Excited to see this out in @dig_geo! Fun and insightful to examine mundane file formats through the mode of production. This paper looks at the histories of GeoJSON and the Esri Shapefile.
https://t.co/W4t5jCFBca
How can digital platforms like TripAdvisor turn nature into tourism commodities? Using digital environmental biopower to classify and rank natural areas, @juan_asta, @agaleszczynski, & Gaillard highlight the biopolitical impact on conservation in Chile. https://t.co/WSkXP6z5Vt
@kyjts@AndrewRumbach Almost worse when they’re there but blatantly outdated/incorrect, as we’ve found in a lot of work in NJ once you poke the data at all
How do you create a political community in the most diverse county in the USA? In this article, James DeFilippis & Elana Simon explore this by looking at electoral politics in Queens, NY https://t.co/v85D7oikb5
Dr. @willbpayne used #spatiotemporal analysis of #Yelp#review activity to depict and analyze the shifting catchment areas of local businesses, as measured through the locations of their reviewers over time and across review categories. https://t.co/yUtMCcn8nn
New article out @BigDataSoc (*open access*) looking at political speech in local reviews (mostly @Yelp w/ some discussion of @googlemaps), considering the spatial structure and social implications of "review bombing" w/2 case studies (#pizzagate & #blm): https://t.co/izrVeikLwL
Kicking off the academic year with a new paper in @SF_Journal �� Coauthored with the wonderful @drschut and @CourtneyBoen, we find that FQHCs are associated with improved health care access for migrant farmworkers, particular those who are undocumented https://t.co/bBSv8PVJ6J
Ever wanted to research mobility patterns but no idea where to start looking for data? @qingqingchen77, @mattzook and I are releasing a dataset originally based on geotagged social media posts by 2 mln users across the US, containing 1.2 bln data points sent between 2012-2019.
I couldn't be more excited to share the cover of @chaykak's FILTERWORLD, out from @doubledaybooks in Jan 2024. A hugely revelatory look into how algorithms shape not just what culture we consume, but what culture is produced-- and the unsettling empty sameness that results
Not your typical Mississippi River map, this fascinating 1960 chart shows the amount of inland freight tonnage moving up and down the river and its tributaries!
Zoom in closer here: https://t.co/nyTmc4LKYz