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Spatiotemporal Footprints in Social Networks

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Synonyms

Check-in; Location; Movement; Place; Spatial interaction; Time; Trajectory

Glossary

Flickr:

A popular photo-sharing website allowing people to upload and share photos that may be tagged with location

GPS:

Global Positioning System, a satellite-based navigation system that provides location and time almost anywhere near the Earth’s surface

Spatial interaction models:

Models describing interaction between two locations as a variable dependent on distance

Twitter:

A popular microblogging and social networking service that supports sending text messages (which are called tweets) of less than 140 characters. Tweets may be associated with location

VGI:

Volunteered geographic information, a type of user-generated content with a spatial component (Goodchild 2007)

Definition

Spatiotemporal footprints discussed in this chapter are locational and temporal information regarding people’s activities that are digitally recorded. Spatial location may be automatically captured as latitude and...

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  1. Department of Geography, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, USA

    Linna Li

  2. Department of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Michael F. Goodchild

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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  1. Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, Singapore

    Gao Cong

  2. LinkedIn, Mountain View, CA, USA

    Bee-Chung Chen

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Li, L., Goodchild, M.F. (2018). Spatiotemporal Footprints in Social Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_322

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