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Social-media data for urban sustainability

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  • Rositsa T. Ilieva

    (Urban Systems Lab, The New School
    CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, City University of New York, Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy)

  • Timon McPhearson

    (Urban Systems Lab, The New School
    Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
    Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University)

Abstract

A voluminous and complex amount of information — ‘big data’ — from social media such as Twitter and Flickr is now ubiquitous and of increasing interest to researchers studying human behaviour in cities. Yet the value of social-media data (SMD) for urban-sustainability research is still poorly understood. Here, we discuss key opportunities and challenges for the use of SMD by sustainability scholars in the natural and social sciences as well as by practitioners making daily decisions about urban systems. Evidence suggests that the vast scale and near-real-time observation are unique advantages of SMD and that solutions to most SMD challenges already exist.

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  • Rositsa T. Ilieva & Timon McPhearson, 2018. "Social-media data for urban sustainability," Nature Sustainability, Nature, vol. 1(10), pages 553-565, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natsus:v:1:y:2018:i:10:d:10.1038_s41893-018-0153-6
    DOI: 10.1038/s41893-018-0153-6
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