Yet another short paper by our very productive student James Williams, co-supervised at Nottingham and at the Ordnance Survey, to be presented at the 2022 Symposium on Data Science and Statistics. Title: "Context for Leisure Walking Routes: A Vision for a Spatial-Platial Approach"Authors: James Williams, Stefano Cavazzi, James Pinchin, Adrian Hazzard, Gary Priestnall, and Andrea … Continue reading Context for Leisure Walking Routes: A Vision for a Spatial-Platial Approach
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A framework to create engaging leisure walking recommendations
Our student James Williams, co-supervised at Nottingham and at the Ordnance Survey, will present his work on route recommendation at the LBS Conference 2022 (Munich, 12–14 September 2022). Authors: James Williams, James Pinchin, Adrian Hazzard, Gary Priestnall, Stefano Cavazzi and Andrea Ballatore Title: "An Emerging Conceptual Model for Curating Engaging Leisure Walking Recommendations" Article: williams-j-lbs-2022Download
RGS-IBG Conference session: Geographies of misinformation – GIScRG, DGRG
Our conference session has been confirmed: 09:00-10:40 Friday, 2 September, 2022 (Henry Daysh Building - 1.06, Hybrid, Newcastle University, UK) • Find the Zoom link at the [session page] Schedule: 9:00 • Introduction by chairs 9:15 • 327 Socio-demographics aspects of Twitter Covid misinformation across countries • Daniel Valdenegro Ibarra, Serge Sharoff, Jose Sosa, Souad … Continue reading RGS-IBG Conference session: Geographies of misinformation – GIScRG, DGRG
COVID-19 and the digital food environment
Our student Alexandra Kalbus will present her fascinating work on how the pandemic has reshaped the digital food environment at International Medical Geography Symposium (Edinburgh, 19th - 24th June): Authors: Alexandra Kalbus, Andrea Ballatore, Laura Cornelsen, Steven Cummins Title: "Area deprivation and changes in the digital food environment during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal analysis … Continue reading COVID-19 and the digital food environment
Putting data science in SHAPE: A geographical perspective
Here's my abstract and my slides for the BRIDGES Conference 2022 about gender differences across disciplines: Photo by JESHOOTS.com on Pexels.com Putting data science in SHAPE: A geographical perspective Andrea Ballatore, Dept of Digital Humanities, King’s College London Teaching data science and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to SHAPE students (i.e. Social sciences, Humanities, and the … Continue reading Putting data science in SHAPE: A geographical perspective
Plotting film toponyms: A study in cultural geo-analytics
My colleagues Stefano De Sabbata, Daniel Chavez Heras, and I have a new short paper out, accepted for Spatial Humanities 2022. After many years of rumination, we have finally started doing some geospatial analytics on film data, which I find very exciting. 🎬🗺📈 Abstract: Films are deeply geographical. Externally, they are produced in places, across … Continue reading Plotting film toponyms: A study in cultural geo-analytics
W2GIS keynote speech: “Beyond GIS? The future of Cultural Geo-Analytics”
I look forward to giving this keynote speech next week at the 19th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS 2022). See the slides here. Photo by Samson Katt on Pexels.com Title: Beyond GIS? The future of Cultural Geo-Analytics Abstract: Cultural geo-analytics (CGA) is an emergent area that studies the geographical dimension … Continue reading W2GIS keynote speech: “Beyond GIS? The future of Cultural Geo-Analytics”
The avant-garde in space and time: Centers and peripheries of Italian Futurism
Founded in 1909 and based in Italy, Futurism was Europe’s first avant-garde movement. While much research has been carried out about the movement’s manifestations in specific locales, a pan-Italian examination of its over time and space has been lacking. This paper will present the preliminary findings of a study of Futurism in Italy, which utilizes … Continue reading The avant-garde in space and time: Centers and peripheries of Italian Futurism
The Local Power of Content Moderation: How Facebook Groups Shape Community Norms
When we think of content moderation, we often picture large tech companies like Meta or Twitter enforcing rules through algorithms or outsourced moderators. But what about the people running our local online spaces? Our extended abstract explores this often-overlooked dimension—how moderators of place-based Facebook groups in London navigate the balance between global platform policies and … Continue reading The Local Power of Content Moderation: How Facebook Groups Shape Community Norms
Call for Abstracts: Geographies of Misinformation • Deadline: 18 Mar 2022
If you are interested in online misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories, join us in this session at the RGS-IBG conference in Newcastle! Call URL: https://geoinfo.science/rgs-2022-geographies-of-misinformation/ Photo by Markus Spiske on Pexels.com The RGS-IBG Annual International Conference regularly attracts over 2,000 geographers from around the world. This year, the conference is taking place at Newcastle University, with in-person, online, … Continue reading Call for Abstracts: Geographies of Misinformation • Deadline: 18 Mar 2022
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