scholarly journals How Location-Based Social Network (LBSN) Data Contribute to Contemporary Urban Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanbo Wu ◽  
Xiaoxiang Zhu

<div>In recent years, social media has created a large amount of new data due to the development of Internet technologies. Scholars in related fields focus a lot on the location-based social network (LBSN) and data generated from LBSN to provide new ideas for urban development. This research analyses LBSN data advantages, including the advanced data source, diversity of LBSN platforms, and LBSN data contents. Challenges of using social media data like deviation in data samples, privacy issues and technical barrier are also covered. Last but not least, this essay will discuss the applications of LBSN data in urban design.</div>

Author(s):  
Mohamad Hasan

This paper presents a model to collect, save, geocode, and analyze social media data. The model is used to collect and process the social media data concerned with the ISIS terrorist group (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria), and to map the areas in Syria most affected by ISIS accordingly to the social media data. Mapping process is assumed automated compilation of a density map for the geocoded tweets. Data mined from social media (e.g., Twitter and Facebook) is recognized as dynamic and easily accessible resources that can be used as a data source in spatial analysis and geographical information system. Social media data can be represented as a topic data and geocoding data basing on the text of the mined from social media and processed using Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods. NLP is a subdomain of artificial intelligence concerned with the programming computers to analyze natural human language and texts. NLP allows identifying words used as an initial data by developed geocoding algorithm. In this study, identifying the needed words using NLP was done using two corpora. First corpus contained the names of populated places in Syria. The second corpus was composed in result of statistical analysis of the number of tweets and picking the words that have a location meaning (i.e., schools, temples, etc.). After identifying the words, the algorithm used Google Maps geocoding API in order to obtain the coordinates for posts.


Author(s):  
F. O. Ostermann ◽  
H. Huang ◽  
G. Andrienko ◽  
N. Andrienko ◽  
C. Capineri ◽  
...  

Increasing availability of Geo-Social Media (e.g. Facebook, Foursquare and Flickr) has led to the accumulation of large volumes of social media data. These data, especially geotagged ones, contain information about perception of and experiences in various environments. Harnessing these data can be used to provide a better understanding of the semantics of places. We are interested in the similarities or differences between different Geo-Social Media in the description of places. This extended abstract presents the results of a first step towards a more in-depth study of semantic similarity of places. Particularly, we took places extracted through spatio-temporal clustering from one data source (Twitter) and examined whether their structure is reflected semantically in another data set (Flickr). Based on that, we analyse how the semantic similarity between places varies over space and scale, and how Tobler's first law of geography holds with regards to scale and places.


10.2196/26119 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. e26119
Author(s):  
Guanghui Fu ◽  
Changwei Song ◽  
Jianqiang Li ◽  
Yue Ma ◽  
Pan Chen ◽  
...  

Background Web-based social media provides common people with a platform to express their emotions conveniently and anonymously. There have been nearly 2 million messages in a particular Chinese social media data source, and several thousands more are generated each day. Therefore, it has become impossible to analyze these messages manually. However, these messages have been identified as an important data source for the prevention of suicide related to depression disorder. Objective We proposed in this paper a distant supervision approach to developing a system that can automatically identify textual comments that are indicative of a high suicide risk. Methods To avoid expensive manual data annotations, we used a knowledge graph method to produce approximate annotations for distant supervision, which provided a basis for a deep learning architecture that was built and refined by interactions with psychology experts. There were three annotation levels, as follows: free annotations (zero cost), easy annotations (by psychology students), and hard annotations (by psychology experts). Results Our system was evaluated accordingly and showed that its performance at each level was promising. By combining our system with several important psychology features from user blogs, we obtained a precision of 80.75%, a recall of 75.41%, and an F1 score of 77.98% for the hardest test data. Conclusions In this paper, we proposed a distant supervision approach to develop an automatic system that can classify high and low suicide risk based on social media comments. The model can therefore provide volunteers with early warnings to prevent social media users from committing suicide.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Luqman Jamil ◽  
Sebastião Pais ◽  
João Cordeiro ◽  
Gaël Dias

Abstract Online social networking platforms allow people to freely express their ideas, opinions, and emotions negatively or positively. Previous studies have examined user’s sentiments on these platforms to study their behaviour in different contexts and purposes. The mechanism of collecting public opinion information has attracted researchers to automatically classify the polarity of public opinions based on the use of concise language in messages, such as tweets, by analyzing social media data. In this paper, we extend the preceding work [1], by proposing an unsupervised approach to automatically detect extreme opinions/posts in social networks. We have evaluated our performance on five different social network and media datasets. In this work, we use the semi-supervised approach BERT to check the accuracy of our classified dataset. The latter task shows that, in these datasets, posts that were previously classified as negative or positive are, in fact, extremely negative or positive in many cases.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oussama BenRhouma ◽  
Ali AlZahrani ◽  
Ahmad AlKhodre ◽  
Abdallah Namoun ◽  
Wasim Ahmad Bhat

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the private-data pertaining to the interaction of users with social media applications that can be recovered from second-hand Android devices. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a black-box testing-principles based methodology to develop use-cases that simulate real-world case-scenarios of the activities performed by the users on the social media application. The authors executed these use-cases in a controlled experiment and examined the Android smartphone to recover the private-data pertaining to these use-cases. Findings The results suggest that the social media data recovered from Android devices can reveal a complete timeline of activities performed by the user, identify all the videos watched, uploaded, shared and deleted by the user, disclose the username and user-id of the user, unveil the email addresses used by the user to download the application and share the videos with other users and expose the social network of the user on the platform. Forensic investigators may find this data helpful in investigating crimes such as cyber bullying, racism, blasphemy, vehicle thefts, road accidents and so on. However, this data-breach in Android devices is a threat to user's privacy, identity and profiling in second-hand market. Practical implications Perceived notion of data sanitisation as a result of application removal and factory-reset can have serious implications. Though being helpful to forensic investigators, it leaves the user vulnerable to privacy breach, identity theft, profiling and social network revealing in second-hand market. At the same time, users' sensitivity towards data-breach might compel users to refrain from selling their Android devices in second-hand market and hamper device recycling. Originality/value This study attempts to bridge the literature gap in social media data-breach in second-hand Android devices by experimentally determining the extent of the breach. The findings of this study can help digital forensic investigators in solving crimes such as vehicle theft, road accidents, cybercrimes and so on. It can assist smartphone users to decide whether to sell their smartphones in a second-hand market, and at the same time encourage developers and researchers to design methods of social media data sanitisation.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Boettcher

BACKGROUND The study of depression and anxiety using publicly available social media data is a research activity that has grown considerably over the last decade. The discussion platform Reddit has become a popular social media data source in this nascent area of study, in part because of the unique ways in which the platform is facilitative of research. To date, no work has been done to synthesize existing studies of depression and anxiety using Reddit. OBJECTIVE The objective of this review is to understand the scope and nature of research using Reddit as a primary data source for studying depression and anxiety. METHODS A scoping review was conducted using the Arksey and O’Malley framework. Academic databases searched include MEDLINE/PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, Scopus, ScienceDirect, IEEE Xplore, and ACM database. Inclusion criteria were developed using the Participants/Concept/Context framework outlined by the Joanna Briggs Institute Scoping Review Methodology Group. Eligible studies featured a methodological focus on analyzing depression and/or anxiety using naturalistic written expressions from Reddit users as the primary data source. RESULTS 54 Studies were included for review. Tables and corresponding analysis delineate key methodological features including a comparatively larger focus on depression versus anxiety, an even split of original and premade datasets, a favored analytic focus on classifying the mental health states of Reddit users, and practical implications often recommending new methods of professionally-driven mental health monitoring and outreach for Reddit users. CONCLUSIONS Studies of depression and anxiety using Reddit data are currently driven by a prevailing methodology which favors a technical, solution-based orientation. Researchers interested in advancing this research area will benefit from further consideration of conceptual issues surrounding interpretation of Reddit data with the medical model of mental health. Further efforts are also needed to locate accountability and autonomy within practice implications suggesting new forms of engagement with Reddit users.


Aksara ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-338
Author(s):  
Hari Kusmanto ◽  
Nadia Puji Ayu ◽  
Harun Joko Prayitno ◽  
Laili Etika Rahmawati ◽  
Dini Restiyanti Pratiwi ◽  
...  

Abstrak Studi ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan wujud kesantunan berkomunikasi dalam media sosial WhatsApp antara mahasiswa dan dosen. Studi ini adalah kualitatif. Data dalam studi ini adalah kalimat-kalimat santun dalam wacana akademik di media sosial. Sumber data dalam studi ini adalah tuturan wacana akademik di media sosial. Pengumpulan data dalam studi ini menggunakan metode dokumentasi, simak, dan dilanjutkan dengan teknik catat. Analisis data dalam studi ini dilakukan dengan metode padan intralingual; padan pragmatis dan diperkuat dengan teknik analisis kesantunan Brown dan Levinson berperspektif humanis. Hasil studi ini menunjukkan tindak kesantunan positif meliputi: (1) mengucapkan terima kasih sebagai penghormatan kepada mitra tutur, 48%; (2) memberikan pertanyaan sebagai wujud perhatian kepada mitra tutur, 8%; (3) memberikan informasi kepada mitra tutur sebagai wujud kepedulian, 18%; (4) menunjukkan keoptimisan kepada mitra tutur supaya termotivasi, 4%; (5) memberikan hadiah kepada mitra tutur dengan memberikan dukungan, 4%; (6) mengucapkan salam kepada mitra tutur sebagai upaya mendoakan kebaikan kepada mitra tutur, 8%; dan (7) menggunakan penanda identitas sebagai wujud menjalin solidaritas antara penutur dan mitra tutur, 10%. Hal ini menunjukkan mahasiswa memiliki sikap penghormatan yang tinggi kepada dosen dengan menunjukkan komunikasi bernada positif. Tindak kesantunan mengucapkan terima kasih, memberikan informasi yang dibutuhkan mitra tutur, menunjukkan sikap percaya diri, mengucapkan salam merupakan wujud komunikasi yang berperspektif humanis, yakni menjunjung nilai-nilai kemanusian. Penelitian ini bermanfaat dalam membangun komunikasi pembelajaran yang berorientasi pada kesantunan berbahasa yang memartabatkan nilai-nilai humanitas dalam pembelajaran. Kata kunci: kesantunan positif, akademik, media sosial, humanis Abstract This study aims to describe the form of politeness in communicating on WhatsApp social media between students and lecturers. This study is qualitative. The data in this study are polite sentences in academic discourse on social media. The data source in this study is the speech of academic discourse on social media. Data collection in this study uses the documentation method, refer to it, and proceed with note taking technique. Data analysis in this study was carried out using the intralingual equivalent method; pragmatic equivalent and strengthened by Brown and Levinson’s politeness analysis techniques with a sweet perspective. The results of this study show positive politeness actions include: (1) Thank you for the speech partner observer 48%; (2) giving questions as a form of attention to the speech partners 8%; (3) providing information to the speech partners as a form of concern 18%; (4) showing optimism for the speech partners to be motivated 4%; (5) giving gifts to speech partners by giving support 4%; (6) greeting the speech partners in an effort to pray for the kindness of the speech partners 8%; and (7) using identity markers as a form of establishing solidarity between the speaker and the speech partner 10%.. ISSN 0854-3283 (Print), ISSN 2580-0353 (Online) , Vol. 32, No. 2, Desember 2020 323 Realisasi Tindak Kesantunan Positif dalam Wacana Akademik di Media Sosial Berperspektif Humanitas Halaman 323 — 338 (Hari Kusmanto, Nadia P. Ayu, Harun J. Prayitno, Laili E. Rahmawati, Dini R. Pratiwi, dan Tri Santoso) This shows students have a high attitude of respect for lecturers by showing positive communication. Actions of thanksgiving, giving information needed by the speech partner, showing self-con dence, greeting is a form of communication with a humanist perspective, namely upholding human values. This research is useful in building learning communication that is oriented towards language politeness that digni es human values in learning. Keywords: positive politeness, academic, social media, humanity 


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