Do global cities enable global views? Using Twitter to quantify the level of geographical awareness of U.S. cities

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Han, Su Yeon ^a,b   Tsou, Ming Hsiang ^a   Clarke, Keith C ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CITY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA PROCESSING; GEOGRAPHICAL AWARENESS; GEOGRAPHY; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY; LEISURE; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; TOPONYM; UNITED STATES; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AWARENESS; CITIES; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SOCIAL MEDIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84940767449     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132464     Document Type: Article

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