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Representation and communication: challenges in interpreting large social media datasets

Rost, Mattias, Barkhuus, Louise, Cramer, Henriette, Brown, Barry·2013·Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work

Abstract

Online services provide a range of opportunities for understanding human behaviour through the large aggregate data sets that their operation collects. Yet the data sets they collect do not unproblematically model or mirror the world events. In this paper we use data from Foursquare, a popular location check-in service, to argue for the importance of analysing social media as a communicative rather than representational system. Drawing on logs of all Foursquare check-ins over eight weeks we highlight four features of Foursquare's use: the relationship between attendance and check-ins, event check-ins, commercial incentives to check-in, and lastly humorous check-ins These points show how large data analysis is affected by the end user uses to which social networks are put.

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Authors
Rost, M., Barkhuus, L., Cramer, H., & Brown, B.
Affiliations
  • Mobile Life @ SICS, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Stockholm University (SE)
  • Yahoo (United States) (US)
  • Mobile Life @ DSV, Stockholm, Sweden
Venue
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Publisher
ACM
Published
2013-02-23
Pages
357-362
OpenAlex
W2169139847
Cited by
78
References
26
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2026: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 4
FWCI
13.76
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
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ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) (publishedVersion)
Funders
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/J007617/1)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Transportation › Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Big Data Technologies and Applications
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
Keywords
Foursquare, social media, communication, representation, large data analysis, event attendance, market incentives, humour, user-generated data

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