2012.03.27
http://events.gsapp.org/event/social-media-for-urban-research
Social media are increasingly becoming part of our everyday lives, from connecting with friends and sharing images to exploring cities through location-based applications. These new services have given us a different vantage point from which to understand, explore, navigate, and geographically record the places we live.
This panel discussion brought together academics, professionals, and journalists who are researching, building, and using social media data to better understand our urban environment. How does the introduction of place-based social media affect our relationship to the city? Who’s creating these data points and what can it show us about how the city is used? How can large private data sets be used for a public good?
Studio-X NYC was joined by the Spatial Information Design Lab for a conversation about the potential of social media in urban research, featuring Sarah Williams of the Spatial Information Design Lab, Brett Martin of Sonar.me, Blake Shaw of Foursquare, and other speakers to be announced.
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