Introduction: Spatial Big Data and everyday life

How do people represent the city on social media? And how do these representations feed back into people's uses of the city? To answer these questions, we develop a relational approach that relies on a combination of qualitative methods and network analysis. Based on in-depth interviews and a dataset of over 400 000 geotagged Instagram posts from Amsterdam, we analyse how the city is reassembled on and through the platform. By selectively drawing on the city, users of the platform elevate exclusive and avant-garde establishments and events, which come to stand out as hot spots, while rendering mundane and low-status places invisible. We find that Instagram provides a space for the segmentation of users into subcultural groups that mobilise the city in varied ways. Social media practices, our findings suggest, feed on as well as perpetuate socio-spatial inequalities.

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“…Graham et al . ; Hampton and Katz ; Leszczynski and Crampton ). How do people represent the city on social media?…”

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Reassembling the city through Instagram

Boy

Uitermark

2017

Trans Inst British Geog

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“…Se estima que el 80% de los datos masivos son espaciales, ya sea porque se dispone de las coordenadas o la dirección postal del lugar o porque el propio contenido de los datos hace referencia explícita a lugares concretos (Leszczynski y Crampton, 2016). Por lo tanto, son datos cartografiables.…”

Section: La Revolución Del Big Data: Características De Los Datos Masunclassified

Big Data y nuevas geografías: la huella digital de las actividades humanas

Puebla

2018

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ResumenEl término Big Data se ha popularizado en los últimos años y hace referencia a la producción de cantidades ingentes de datos. La actividad humana es captada a través de múltiples redes de sensores y dispositivos, dejando por tanto una huella digital. El análisis de esta huella digital tiene un gran potencial para la investigación geográfica del comportamiento humano. En este artículo se describen las principales características del Big Data y se destaca la importancia de los datos masivos para la ciencia y particularmente para la Geografía, centrando la atención en el estudio de los patrones espacio-temporales de la actividad humana. Palabras clave: Big Data; datos geolocalizados; comportamiento humano Resum. Big Data i noves geografies: l'empremta digital de les activitats humanesEl terme Big Data s'ha popularitzat en els últims anys i fa referència a la producció de quantitats ingents de dades. L'activitat humana és captada a través de múltiples xarxes de sensors i dispositius i, per tant, deixa una empremta digital. L'anàlisi d'aquesta empremta digital té un gran potencial per a la investigació geogràfica del comportament humà. En aquest article es descriuen les principals característiques del Big Data i es destaca la importància de les dades massives per a la ciència i, particularment, per a la Geografia, centrant l'atenció en l'estudi dels patrons espaciotemporals de l'activitat humana. Paraules clau: Big Data; dades geolocalitzades; comportament humà * Este artículo se basa parcialmente en la conferencia «Big Data y nuevas geografías», pronunciada en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona en 2017, y en la ponencia «El uso del Big Data en la investigación de la ciudad, la movilidad y el turismo», presentada en el XXV Congreso de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles. Résumé. Big Data et nouvelles géographies : l'empreinte digitale des activités humainesLe terme Big Data est devenu populaire ces dernières années et il se réfère à la production d'énormes quantités de données. L'activité humaine est captée par une multitude de réseaux de capteurs et de dispositifs, laissant ainsi une empreinte digitale. L'analyse de cette empreinte présente un grand potentiel pour l'étude géographique du comportement humain. Cet article décrit les principales caractéristiques du Big Data et il souligne l'importance des données massives pour la science et en particulier pour la géographie, en se concentrant sur l'étude des modèles spatio-temporels de l'activité humaine. Mots-clés: Big Data; données géolocalisées; comportement humain Abstract. Big data and new geographies: The digital footprint of human activityThe term 'big data' has become popular in recent years and refers to the production of huge amounts of data. Human activity is captured through multiple networks of sensors and devices, thus leaving a digital footprint. The analysis of this digital footprint has a great potential for geographical research on human behavior. This article describes the main characteristics of big data and highlights the importance of m...

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“…Most recently, data has been discussed in relation to cartographic practices. So-called 'spatial big data' -that is, 'natively geocoded content, geographical metadata, or data that itself refers to spaces and places' (Leszczynski & Crampton, 2016: 1) -has been said to produce further top-down power geometries that are increasingly significant when we consider the many ways that locational data is harvested and used by powerful technology companies (Thatcher, 2017). This paper contributes to this body of work by continuing to focus on maps as powerful objects of representation.…”

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“…Interactions between a user and a digital map, such as those described above, produce a multiplicity of data which is used in multifarious (and it must be said often unknown) ways by a range of stakeholders including but not always limited to the proprietary owner of the mapping software in question and their affiliated partners. This 'spatial big data', commonly defined by its volume, velocity and variability, is produced from encounters with the map and is significant when we consider the power of maps and data in contemporary everyday life (Leszczynski & Crampton, 2016).…”

Section: Navigation Politics and Spatial Big Datamentioning

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Navigational Mapping Practices: Contexts, Politics, Data

Duggan

2018

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture

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Maps communicate meaning to the practices and experiences of navigation in everyday life. This is ever more the case in a world where GPS, geo-spatial and locative mapping technology has become embedded in more devices. And yet such mediations are not neutral. Rather, they are entangled with cultural and political practices, and increasingly with the accumulation of spatial big data. Put together, these elements have an impact on how our experiences and understanding of the world are formed and on how the power of maps is exercised and experienced. This paper draws from an ethnographic study of everyday map use in London to demonstrate how some of these impacts mediate and shape practices of urban navigation. The paper contends that navigational mapping practices are contextual, political and increasingly practices of data collection.

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Introduction: Spatial Big Data and everyday life

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Reassembling the city through Instagram

Reassembling the city through Instagram

Big Data y nuevas geografías: la huella digital de las actividades humanas

Navigational Mapping Practices: Contexts, Politics, Data

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