A Tale of Cities: Urban Biases in Volunteered Geographic Information
| العنوان: | A Tale of Cities: Urban Biases in Volunteered Geographic Information |
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| المؤلفون: | Brent Hecht, Monica Stephens |
| المصدر: | Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 8:197-205 |
| بيانات النشر: | Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2014. |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| الوصف: | Geotagged tweets, Foursquare check-ins and other forms of volunteered geographic information (VGI) play a critical role in numerous studies and a large range of intelligent technologies. We show that three of the most commonly used sources of VGI – Twitter, Flickr, and Foursquare – are biased towards urban perspectives at the expense of rural ones. Utilizing a geostatistics-based approach, we demonstrate that, on a per capita basis, these important VGI datasets have more users, more information, and higher quality information within metropolitan areas than outside of them. VGI is a subset of user-generated content (UGC) and we discuss how our results suggest that urban biases might exist in non-geographically referenced UGC as well. Finally, because Foursquare is exclusively made up of VGI, we argue that Foursquare (and possibly other location-based social networks) has fundamentally failed to appeal to rural populations. |
| تدمد: | 2334-0770 2162-3449 |
| DOI: | 10.1609/icwsm.v8i1.14554 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::44d985d73f7d09c8f0223eb3a01ac04b https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v8i1.14554 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........44d985d73f7d09c8f0223eb3a01ac04b |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 23340770 21623449 |
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| DOI: | 10.1609/icwsm.v8i1.14554 |