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The Role of Social Media Geographic Information (SMGI) in Spatial Planning

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This contribution reports on ongoing research carried on by the authors on the role of Social Media Geographic Information in spatial planning, design, and decision-making. Explicit and Implicit Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) from social media platforms, namely Social Media Geographic Information (SMGI) resources, were used to explore novel methods and tools for analysis and knowledge construction. The results concern three main research streams carried on with the common feature of integrating social media and other volunteered and authoritative sources of information from Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI). These findings demonstrated that the integration of SMGI with more traditional Authoritative Geographic Information (A-GI) may offer a high potential for eliciting pluralist knowledge for spatial planning.

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank the anonymous reviewers and the editors for the valuable comments on the early version of this chapter. The work presented in this chapter was developed by the authors within the research project “Efficacia ed efficienza della governance paesaggistica e territoriale in Sardegna: il ruolo della VAS e delle IDT” [Efficacy and efficiency of landscape and environmental management in Sardinia: the role of SEA and of SDI] CUP: J81J11001420007 funded by the Autonomous Region of Sardinia under the Regional Law no. 7/2007 “Promozione della ricerca scientifica e dell’innovazione tecnologica in Sardegna”.

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  1. DICAAR, Università Di Cagliari, Via Marengo 2, 09123, Cagliari, Italy

    Michele Campagna, Roberta Floris & Pierangelo Massa

  2. Università Di Cagliari, Via Marengo 2, 09123, Cagliari, Italy

    Anastacia Girsheva & Konstantin Ivanov

  3. Tomsk Polytechnic University, 30 Lenin Avenue, Tomsk, Russia, 634050

    Konstantin Ivanov

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  1. Department of Human Geography and Planning, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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  2. Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Joseph Ferreira, Jr.

  3. Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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  4. School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

    John Stillwell

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Campagna, M., Floris, R., Massa, P., Girsheva, A., Ivanov, K. (2015). The Role of Social Media Geographic Information (SMGI) in Spatial Planning. In: Geertman, S., Ferreira, Jr., J., Goodspeed, R., Stillwell, J. (eds) Planning Support Systems and Smart Cities. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18368-8_3

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