Black, C;
Mamoura, M;
Fatah gen Schieck, A;
(2015)
Digital Manifestations.
Presented at: 10th International Space Syntax Symposium, London, UK.
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Abstract
We present the comparative analysis into locations of events in the city of London and the locations of tweets posted that relate to those events. Twitter, a social media site, allows users to post sentences publically (up to 140 characters) which can be seen by any other Twitter user and the location of the tweet can be identified. This paper compares the events of the first week of the London Olympics 2012 with its corresponding tweets. In relation to this, two questions are posed: are the tweeters’ location correlative to the corresponding event they are talking about and how does the movement of twitter users manifest over time. By filtering users and keywords, and mapping the tweets, results show that there is a strong positive correlation to where the event is happening physically and where people are tweeting about it. By tracking user movements, trends are also identified concerning how people move around the city with four main patterns.
| Type: | Poster |
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| Title: | Digital Manifestations |
| Event: | 10th International Space Syntax Symposium |
| Location: | London, UK |
| Dates: | 17 July 2015 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.spacesyntax.net/symposia/ |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | London 2012 Olympics, movement in urban space, twitter |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10208916 |
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