When the City Meets the Citizen
Papers from the 2013 ICWSM Workshop
Elizabeth M. Daly, Raz Schwartz, Workshop Cochairs
Technical Report WS-13-04
44 pp., $25.00
ISBN 978-1-57735-614-1
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Social media analysis can play a key role in providing insights into people's activities, opinions and day-to-day lives. When they are geolocated, these user-generated information streams become a unique opportunity to understand the rhythms and tenors of a city and its citizens. By applying computational, social science, and humanities methods to social media data such as photos, tweets and check-ins, researchers are now beginning to conceive of new methodological and theoretical frameworks not only to extract local insights but, more importantly, to better understand cities and their residents.