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Christaller and "big data": Recalibrating central place theory via the geoweb Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This article utilizes central place theory (CPT) to navigate the “deluge” brought about by big data. While originating in the 1930s, CPT is a theoretical monument of 1960s spatial science. CPT aims to understand settlement geographies based on consumption behavior and is often presented as a singular, outdated, and rationalist theory. After critically reviewing the history of CPT, we assess the microfoundations of Christaller’s CPT – the ...
Context-aware location recommendation using geotagged photos in social media Ghent University
Recently, the increasing availability of digital cameras and the rapid advances in social media have led to the accumulation of a large number of geotagged photos, which may reflect people's travel experiences in different cities and can be used to generate location recommendations for tourists. Research on this aspect mainly focused on providing personalized recommendations matching a tourist's travel preferences, while ignoring the context of ...
Gewoonte of verslaving? Een verkennend onderzoek naar afhankelijkheid bij het sociaal smartphonegebruik van jongvolwassenen Ghent University
De mobiele telefoon zorgde, net als andere technologieën voorheen, ervoor dat sociale praktijken tussen mensen drastisch veranderden (Ling, 2004, 2008). De introductie van de smartphone in 2009 heeft dit fenomeen nog versterkt, doordat convergentie en ‘always-on’ het klassieke gsm-idee vervoegen (Hall & Baym, 2011; Lee, 2009). Die alomtegenwoordigheid en interactiviteit heeft als gevolg dat de smartphone als vanzelfsprekend wordt beschouwd ...
The role of images in social media analytics: A multimodal digital humanities approach KU Leuven
The analysis of social media data is an emerging research field that aims to study the dynamics of urban life. In this study, we adopt a multimodal digital humanities approach to combine the analysis of text-based social media data with visual social media data in an interactive map to investigate urban life in Singapore from a social semiotic perspective. Twitter is used as a source of user-defined localised textual data, Instagram as a source ...