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Quantifying and visualizing language diversity of Hong Kong using Twitter

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  • Naizhuo Zhao
  • Guofeng Cao

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The wide penetration of location-aware mobile devices and location-based services renders the location-based social media as a reliable proxy to study the real-world geographic space. Language diversity is an important indicator of a city's internationalization level. People communicate using different languages in the cyberspace of social media as they do in the geographic space. The location-based social media therefore provides an innovative set of lens to map the language diversity and study the internationalization of cities. In the enclosed graphics, based on a collection of geo-tagged Twitter posts, we generated a fine resolution map of language diversity index in the area of Hong Kong to illustrate the potential of location-based social media in city research.

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  • Naizhuo Zhao & Guofeng Cao, 2017. "Quantifying and visualizing language diversity of Hong Kong using Twitter," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 49(12), pages 2698-2701, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:49:y:2017:i:12:p:2698-2701
    DOI: 10.1177/0308518X17722369
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