Using Social Media Data to Study People’s Perception and Knowledge of Environments
ISBN 978-85-88783-11-9
Authors
1Huang, H.
1VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Email: haosheng.huang@tuwien.ac.at
Abstract
Increasing availability of online social network and media-sharing services (e.g. Facebook, Foursquare and Flickr) has led to the accumulation of large volumes of social media data, such as text-based messages, check-ins, reviews/ratings, images, videos, and so on. Many of these data are tagged with geographic location information, e.g. latitude/longitude, and often reflect how people perceive, experience and behave in various environments. This paper explores the potential of geotagged social media data for understanding people’s perception and knowledge of environments, especially urban environments.