What to do with a degree in human geography Your analytical skills are highly marketable, but further study is required for many related careers Once lampooned as the last academic domain of the workshy and the unimaginative, geography has experienced a sharp revival of its street credentials as environmentalism has entered the mainstream. Following another …
Category Archive: Social Media and Geography
May 13 2012
The Geography of Social Media Threats
The geography of social media is forever shifting. However, the tasty infographic shows the geography of threats: Tweet
May 10 2012
The Geography of Internet Censorship
It’s amazing how human geography has been turned inside out by the Internet. The GeoPolitical side of the internet can be seen through censorship: check out the article here Tweet
May 08 2012
Article: Map of 10,000 Tweets Shows New York City at Work: geotag example
A great example of geotagging in action here. Eric Fischer has mapped the geotags from Twitter to show New York’s social media backbone: http://mashable.com/2012/01/27/nyc-geotagged-tweets/ (Sent from Flipboard) Tweet
Jul 10 2011
Introducing the fastest evolving organism: ‘The Internet’
It is no secret that the internet has disbanded the geographies of time, place and activities. People can now create and access information where and when they want (given some access and a little bit of education). With a growing population of 2 billion users, this revolutionary world has given birth to an intricate set …
Jul 10 2011
Mapping Twitter Moods
Research from Harvard University titled ‘Pulse of the Nation: U.S. Mood Throughout the Day inferred from Twitter‘ has created a fascinating model using ‘happy and sad tweets’. Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, maps from Wikimedia Commons, user locations inferred using the Google Maps API; all displayed perfectly using a PostGIS cartograms. Check out the video: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujcrJZRSGkg&feature=player_embedded] Tweet
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