A Geographic Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Spatio-Temporal Constraints on Social Networks
Spatio-Temporal Constraints on Social Networks Workshop, University of California, Santa Barbara, Center for Spatial Studies, 13-14 December 2010
A Geographic Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Spatio-Temporal Constraints on Social Networks
Daniel Sui
“In much the same way as web search engines provide instant access to the retrospective web of previously crawled and indexed content, rapidly expanding social computing services are a catalyst for what is known as the prospective web, with constantly modified real-time content that reflects the current activity of the web’s participants. As an integral part of the prospective web, social media is quickly becoming social sensors that broadcast signals at both individual and societal levels. The explosive growth and diffusions of locative social media and the spatial turn in media studies, coupled with the communicational turn in geography, are providing us a golden opportunity to study social media and social networking from geographic perspectives. As the first step, I am interested in contributing a geographic conceptual framework for understanding spatio-temporal constraints on social networks. This framework will be developed by synthesizing the insights gained from the spatial turn in media studies (Falkheimer, and Jansson, 2006) and the communicational turn in geography (Adams, 2009).”
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