Privacy, reconsidered: New representations, data practices, and the geoweb

Elwood, Sarah; Leszczynski, Agnieszka

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.08.003

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“…While we believe that social media data can contribute to conservation science, a number of challenges, including geographic and content biases, self-selecting users, and ethical concerns (Elwood and Leszczynski, 2011;Crampton et al, 2013;Goodchild, 2013;Longley et al, 2015), need to be addressed when using social media data in future research or to inform management decisions. While the amount of user generated content is really high, much of this is produced by a small number of highly active users (Li et al, 2013) and only a small proportion of all of the data is open.…”

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Prospects and challenges for social media data in conservation science

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Tenkanen

Toivonen

2015

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Social media data have been extensively used in numerous fields of science, but examples of their use in conservation science are still very limited. In this paper, we propose a framework on how social media data could be useful for conservation science and practice. We present the commonly used social media platforms and discuss how their content could provide new data and information for conservation science. Based on this, we discuss how future work in conservation science and practice would benefit from social media data.

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Prospects and challenges for social media data in conservation science

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Tenkanen

Toivonen

2015

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…As cyborgs, these subjects participate in acts of knowing that are multiple and hybrid (Wilson, 2009). These geocoding subjects encode life and living in ways that motivate particular urban imaginations (Wilson, 2011b), that create new possibilities for community politics (Elwood, 2006), that further a natural science research agenda (Goodchild, 2007), that constitute new forms of disclosure (Elwood and Leszczynski, 2011), and, further, that even inscribe the geospatial onto the body (Sui, 2008).…”

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Situating Neogeography

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Graham

2013

Environ Plan A

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Guest editorialSituating neogeography Enormous amounts of online and networked data are becoming part of the layers, experiences, and landscapes of place. Geographers and other social scientists have only relatively recently begun to understand this rapid expansion of user-centered, locational media. Movements in the academy in response to these phenomena have offered a series of organising labels, with different levels of specifi city and layers of connotation: the geoweb, spatial/social media, user-generated content, 'big data', as well as volunteered geographic information (VGI) and neogeography. Within geography a number of events mark these developments, including a VGI specialist meeting in Santa Barbara, USA in 2007 and an accompanying special issue of GeoJournal (Elwood, 2008), a World University Network seminar on neogeography in 2008, an interview with Michael Goodchild conducted by Nadine Schuurman and published by Environment and Planning D: Society and Space in 2009, Progress in Human Geography reports authored by Jeremy Crampton ( 2009) and Sarah Elwood ( 2010), a specialist meeting on space-time geographies of social networks in Santa Barbara in 2010, a preconference gathering on VGI in Seattle in 2011 reported in an edited collection (Sui et al, 2013), and numerous special sessions at the AAG meetings annually since 2008. Meanwhile, popular technology conferences like Where 2.0 have met for eight years and draw designers and engineers representing software giants and startups, as well as representatives from municipal, state, and federal governments, with only a handful of academic geographers. Since Andrew Turner's Introduction to Neogeography (2006), neogeographers are increasingly defi ning themselves in arenas outside of the academy.These developments are united in their focus on data: proliferation, standardization, interoperability, quality/accuracy, and visualization. Locational data, created both actively/ deliberately/knowingly and passively/unconsciously/unknowingly, increasingly take on social, economic, ethical, and political relevance as geographic information becomes ever-more embedded into everyday practices. The technologies underpinning this rapid expansion are seemingly stateless, are constantly shifting, and sometimes ephemeral. Critical geographers may be consequently less prepared to respond to the various instantiations of locational media, but nonetheless must respond. Here, we consider: what are the outlines of this response? How might we situate neogeography? What are the various assemblages, networks, ecologies, confi gurations, discourses, cyborgs, alliances that enable/enact these technologies?The relevance of such questions, and the need for critical interrogations of the subject, become apparent as neogeographic practices become increasingly popular, ever more visible and infl uential, and frequently a component of the ways in which place is enacted, augmented, imagined, and commoditised. Before outlining the work that follows in this theme issue, we wish to draw the ...

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“…Dystopian perspectives become vehicles for channeling concerns and anxieties. Countering fear-mongering means speaking to concerns about the use of surveillance technologies (ELWOOD & LESZCZYNSKI 2011) and potentials for merging data sets to circumvent anonymity (HARVEY in press) among the many issues that raise concerns. The range of uses and concerns points to in importance of treating maps as opinion pieces (BROTTON 2012) and the already apparent use of location technology to provide ubiquitous orientation and ubiquitous surveillance.…”

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A New Age of Discovery: The Post-GIS Era

Harvey¹

2013

GI_Forum 2013 – Creating the GISociety

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GIS has been successful beyond measure around the world. Following Donald Norman, successful technologies disappear; they become infrastructure. Now almost 50 years after its inception and successful disappearance to become an integral foundation for life in the information age, it's time to think of issues in the Post-GIS era. This presentation specifically considers how the growing ubiquity of computing infrastructures around the world open potentials for a new era of discovery in global science and geographic information technologies. Because of the shifts in access and abilities to use digital information, the potential of geographic information is bursting the limits of GIS, which originated at the end of industrial era and still reflects those origins. Research challenges abound. Post-GIS science and technologies hold key importance in facilitating connections between the physical and virtual worlds, melding them into productive arrangements and raising important questions about changing social and cultural arrangements. Regarding science, networked digital infrastructures hold the potential to alter research in fundamental ways. Known as the Fourth Paradigm of science, data intensive science goes hand-in-hand with intensely collaborative large group research that considers location in fascinating new ways. Recent scientific activities show how changes in the geographical organization of our work and conduct of science have already begun to take place. The presentation closes with considerations of central issues for this new age and recent activities that highlight the importance of educating future professionals and scientists for the post-GIS era.

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Privacy, reconsidered: New representations, data practices, and the geoweb

Cited by 165 publications

References 36 publications

Prospects and challenges for social media data in conservation science

Prospects and challenges for social media data in conservation science

Situating Neogeography

A New Age of Discovery: The Post-GIS Era

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