ABSTRACT
How do we “know” a place? What are the modalities by which we can study the character of a social place today, examine social interactions within it, and trace its unique rhythm? The vast growth in geolocated and time-stamped social media data such as tweets, check-ins, and images promises to bring new challenges and opportunities in investigating these questions. This research is about city spaces and locative social media—what we can learn, what we cannot learn about these spaces, and what the practical lessons and applications may be. It is research that is a by-product of data-driven observation.
