Spatial Analysis on Social Media-Development of Location-based Contents System with Mobile Devices
Kazunari Ishida
Journal of Networking Technology, Vol. 2, No. 4, 2011.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/jnt/fulltext/v2n4/3.pdf
Abstract:
This paper investigates the quality of geographical information provided by a location-based service, such as Foursquare, and its geographical distribution. According to the result, geographical information described by autonomous individuals is heavily clustered in metropolitan areas. In order to reduce the geographically-biased distribution of information, location-based content systems have been developed with mobile devices for people in local communities. Members of a local community, e.g., shopping districts and tourist spots, have strong incentives to provide high quality information to their customers. Hence, the systems are provided to people in these communities so that a vast amount of geo-local content is going to be published on the Internet. To deploy the developed system, two local areas are investigated in terms of spatial analysis on social media. The areas are a rural town and a mid-size city. According to the analysis, the members in the rural town have to generate local content concerning their locality because word-of-mouth information is very scarce.