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Foams of togetherness in the digital age: Sloterdijk, software sorting and Foursquare [PDF]

Geographica Helvetica, 2020
The article brings together Peter Sloterdijk's theory of spheres and literatures on the socio-spatial implications of the functioning of software. By examining the growing personalization of search results for recreational places on spatial media like ...
S. Widmer, F. Klauser
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Coğrafi Tabanlı Sosyal Medya Kullanımı: Ankara’da En Çok Yer Bildirimi Yapılan Kahve Mekanları

Journal of Architectural Sciences and Applications, 2017
Öz Günümüzde teknoloji geliştikçe araştırma teknikleri de değişmektedir. Değişen teknoloji ile birlikte farklı araştırma teknikleri de ortaya çıkmaktadır.
H. İpek Büyükdemi̇rci̇, Özge Ercoşkun   +1 more
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Mobile Phone Detection of Semantic Location and Its Relationship to Depression and Anxiety

JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2017
BackgroundIs someone at home, at their friend’s place, at a restaurant, or enjoying the outdoors? Knowing the semantic location of an individual matters for delivering medical interventions, recommendations, and other context-aware services.
Saeb, Sohrab, Lattie, Emily G, Kording, Konrad P, Mohr, David C   +3 more
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Predicting the temporal activity patterns of new venues

EPJ Data Science, 2018
Estimating revenue and business demand of a newly opened venue is paramount as these early stages often involve critical decisions such as first rounds of staffing and resource allocation.
Krittika D’Silva, Anastasios Noulas, Mirco Musolesi, Cecilia Mascolo, Max Sklar   +4 more
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Improving Destination Choice Modeling Using Location-Based Big Data

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2017
Citizens are increasingly sharing their location and movements through “check-ins” on location based social networks (LBSNs). These services are collecting unprecedented amounts of big data that can be used to study how we travel and interact with our ...
Joseph Molloy, Rolf Moeckel
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Temporal Predictability of Online Behavior in Foursquare [PDF]

Entropy, 2016
With the widespread use of Internet technologies, online behaviors play a more and more important role in humans’ daily lives. Knowing the times when humans perform their next online activities can be quite valuable for developing better online services, which prompts us to wonder whether the times of users’ next online activities are predictable.
Chen, Wang, Gao, Qiang, Xiong, Huagang
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Modeling Weather-Aware Prediction of User Activities and Future Visits

IEEE Access, 2020
In recent years, Location-Based Social Networking (LBSN) sites such as Foursquare, Facebook Places, and Twitter have become extremely popular due to the extensive usage of location-enabled smart phone technologies.
Samia Nawshin, Md. Saddam Hossain Mukta, Mohammed Eunus Ali, A. K. M. Najmul Islam   +3 more
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Speaking swiss [PDF]

Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia, 2013
Due to increasing globalization, urban societies are becoming more multicultural. The availability of large-scale digital mobility traces e.g. from tweets or checkins provides an opportunity to explore multiculturalism that until recently could only be addressed using survey-based methods.
Darshan Santani, Daniel Gatica-Perez
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Foursquare and the parochialization of public space

First Monday, 2013
The mobile social network Foursquare has gained popularity in the last few years among both users and businesses. This article explores how the use of Foursquare changes and impacts people’s sense of place. Drawing on the work of Lofland (1998) on the social production of space, we argue that as new socio–spatial information (i.e., who checks in where)
Lee Humphreys, Tony C. Liao
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Use of Social Media Across US Hospitals: Descriptive Analysis of Adoption and Utilization

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2014
BackgroundUse of social media has become widespread across the United States. Although businesses have invested in social media to engage consumers and promote products, less is known about the extent to which hospitals are using social media to interact
Griffis, Heather M, Kilaru, Austin S, Werner, Rachel M, Asch, David A, Hershey, John C, Hill, Shawndra, Ha, Yoonhee P, Sellers, Allison, Mahoney, Kevin, Merchant, Raina M   +9 more
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