The convergence of GIS and social media: Challenges for GIScience

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1737-1748

  Sui, Daniel ^a   Goodchild, Michael ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

data mining; GIS; social media; Web GIS

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA MINING; GIS; MASS MEDIA; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84859139864     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2011.604636     Document Type: Review

References (49)

1. Adams, P.C. 2009. Geographies of media and communication, New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
2. Agnew, J. 2005. "Space: place". In Spaces of geographical thought, Edited by: Cloke, P. and Johnston, R. 81-96. London: Sage.
3. Backstrom, L., Huttenlocher, D. and Kleinberg, J. Group formation in large social networks: membership, growth, and evolution. Proceedings of the 12th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. pp.44-54. 15
4. Ball, M. 2005. Google verifies that GIS is media. GeoWorld,: 5
5. Bian, L. and Liebner, D. 2007. A network model for dispersion of communicable diseases. Transactions in GIS, 11(2): 155-173.
6. Carroll, A., 2006. A case-study-in-progress: How a media organization tackles the georeferencing challenge/opportunity [online]. Position paper presented at the International Workshop on Digital Gazetteer Research & Practice. http://ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/nga/docs/carroll-paper.pdf (Accessed: 18 May 2011).
7. Casey, E. 1997. The fate of place: a philosophical history, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
8. Castree, N. 2010. The point is to change it: geographies of hope and survival in an age of crisis, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
9. Caverlee, J., 2010. A few thoughts on the computational perspective [online]. Paper presented during the Specialist Meeting on Spatio-Temporal Constraints on Social Networks, 13-14 December 2010, Santa Barbara, CA. http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/spatio-temporal/docs/Caverlee-presentation.pdf (Accessed: 18 May 2011).
10. Clark, K., 2011, Stories everywhere [online]. http://jakesutera.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/maps-as-journalism (Accessed: 18 May 2011).
11. Couclelis, H. 2003. The certainty of uncertainty. Transactions in GIS, 7(2): 165-175.
12. Cowen, D., 2007. Why not a Geo-Wiki corps? [online]. Position paper presented at workshop on volunteered geographic information, 13-14 December 2007, Santa Barbara, CA. http://ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/vgi/participants.html (Accessed: 10 December 2010).
13. Dangermond, J., 2011. Living maps-Making collective geographic information a reality [online]. Paper presented during 2011 Where 2.0 Symposium, 19-21 April Santa Clara, CA. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIbGwY3aG0g (Accessed: 3 May 2011).
14. Döring, J. and Thielmann, T., eds. 2009. Mediengeographie: theorie-analyse-diskussion, Bielefeld: transcript.
15. Goodchild, M.F. 2007. Citizens as sensors: the world of volunteered geography. GeoJournal, 69(4): 211-221.
16. Goodchild, M.F. 2010. Twenty years of progress: GIScience in 2010. Journal of Spatial Information Science, 1: 3-20.
17. Goodchild, M.F., 2011a. Challenges in geographical information science. Proceedings of the Royal Society A. Available fromAccessed 15 May 2011 http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2011/04/16/rspa.2011.0114
18. Goodchild, M.F. 2011b. "Formalizing place in geographic information systems". In Communities, neighborhoods, and health: expanding the boundaries of place, Edited by: Burton, L.M. 21-35. New York: Springer.
19. Goodchild, M.F. and Glennon, J.A. 2010. Crowdsourcing geographic information for disaster response: a research frontier. International Journal of Digital Earth, 3(3): 231-241.
20. Gore, A. 1992. Earth in the balance: ecology and the human spirit, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.
21. Gray, J., 2007. Jim Gray on eScience: a transformed scientific method [online]. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/fourthparadigm/4th_paradigm_book_jim_gray_transcript.pdf (Accessed: 18 May 2011).
22. Haklay, M., 2010. The tyranny of place and OpenStreetMap [online]. http://povesham.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/the-tyranny-of-place-and-openstreetmap/ (Accessed: 18 May 2011).
23. Haklay, M. 2010. How many volunteers does it take to map an area well? The validity of Linus' law to volunteered geographic information. The Cartographic Journal, 47(4): 315-322.
24. Herzog, D. 2003. Mapping the news: case studies in GIS and journalism, Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.
25. Hey, T. 2009. The fourth paradigm: data-intensive scientific discovery, Redmond, WA: Microsoft Research.
26. Intagorn, S., et al., 2010. Harvesting geospatial knowledge from social metadata [online]. Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM.). http://arxiv.org/abs/1005.5114 (Accessed: 23 April 2010).
27. Jansson, A. 2007. Texture: a key concept for communication geography. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 10(2): 185-202.
28. Jansson, A. 2009. Beyond 'other spaces': media studies and the cosmopolitan vision. Communication Review, 13: 4
29. Lindamood, J. Inferring private information using social network data. Proceedings of the International World Wide Web Conference. pp.1145-1146.
30. Liu, S.B. and Palen, L. 2010. The new cartographers: crisis map mashups and the emergence of neogeographic practice. Cartography and Geographic Information Science Special Issue: New Directions in Hazards and Disaster Research, 37(1): 69-90.
31. Manovich, L., 2011. Trending: the promises and the challenges of big social data [online]. http://www.manovich.net/DOCS/Manovich_trending_paper.pdf (Accessed: 10 May 2011).
32. Mao, L. and Bian, L. 2010. A dynamic social network with individual mobility for designing intervention strategies. Transactions in GIS, 14(4): 533-545.
33. Miller, H.J. 2003. What about people in geographic information science?. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 27(4): 447-453.
34. Miller, H.J. 2010. The data avalanche is here. Shouldn't we be digging?. Journal of Regional Science, 50: 181-201.
35. Monmonier, M. 1999. Maps with the news: the development of American journalistic cartography, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
36. Morley, D. 2007. Media, modernity and technology: the geography of the new media, London: Routledge.
37. Murphy, A.B. 2006. Enhancing geography's role in public debate. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 96(1): 1-13.
38. National Research Council. 2006. Learning to think spatially: GIS as a support system in K-12 education, Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
39. Raymond, E.S. 1999. The cathedral and the bazaar: musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary, Cambridge, MA: O'Reilly.
40. Richardson, D., 2004. Mapping the news [online]. AAG Newsletter, June. http://www.aag.org/galleries/meridian-files/200406Meridian.pdf (Accessed: 18 May 2011).
41. Sui, D.Z. 2005. G for Google? What can we learn from Google's success so far?. GeoWorld, 15(3): 18-22.
42. Sui, D.Z. 2009. Rethinking ptolemy in the age of Web 2.0: neogeography is paleo. GeoWorld, 19(3): 23-25.
43. Sui, D.Z. 2011. "Legal and ethical issues of using GIS in society". In The Sage handbook of GIS and society, Edited by: Nyerges, T.L. 504-528. London: Sage.
44. Sui, D.Z. and Goodchild, M.F. 2001. Are GIS becoming new media?. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 15(5): 387-390.
45. Sui, D.Z. and Goodchild, M.F. 2003. A tetradic analysis of GIS and society using McLuhan's law of media. Canadian Geographers, 47(1): 5-17.
46. Thielmann, T. 2010. Locative media and mediated localities: an introduction to media geography. Aether: The Journal of Media Geography, 5(1): 1-17.
47. Tuan, Y.-F. 1977. Space and place, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota.
48. Turner, A. 2006. Introduction to neogeography, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media.
49. Yuan, M., 2011. Response of University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS) to the NSF's Dear colleague letter for SBE 2020: future research in social, behavior, and economic sciences [online]. http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/sbe_2020 (Accessed: 5 April 2010).