On the "localness" of user-generated content

By Brent J. Hecht, Darren Gergle. Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2010

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Subfields: Communication, Information Systems, Sociology and Political Science

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Towards quality discourse in online news comments (2011, background): “... writing frequency and the subjectivity or objectivity of comment content? How much does topicality really affect the quality of comments across different news stories? Are there temporal patterns to more or less quality comments? Can we extract and utilize the social connections or community aff”
Tweets from Justin Bieber's heart: the dynamics of the location field in user profiles (2011, methodology): “Academic HCI research has seen an increase in the number of papers on geographic information (e.g. [8, 18, 20, 21, 24, 26]).”
A Framework for Protecting Worker Location Privacy in Spatial Crowdsourcing (2014, background): “A related study [11] addresses the localness of contents posted by Flickr and Wikipedia users, and proposes a spatial content production model (SCPM) that computes the mean contribution distance (MCD) of each worker as follows:”
The Effect of Population and "Structural" Biases on Social Media-based Algorithms: A Case Study in Geolocation Inference Across the Urban-Rural Spectrum (2017, methodology): “As such, we turned instead to geocoding the location field through an approach that has been shown to significant reduce the noise in this data source (albeit with reduced recall) [26]: using a Wikipedia-based geocoder.”
The Geography and Importance of Localness in Geotagged Social Media (2016, methodology): “This research builds on that of Hecht and Gergle by directly targeting the localness assumption that is central to so many studies that utilize social media VGI, characterizing the degree of localness across three separate types of social media VGI, its geographic and sociodemographic variation, and”
A Tale of Cities: Urban Biases in Volunteered Geographic Information (2014, background): “While the " localness " of UGC (using VGI as a proxy) has been studied in general (Hecht and Gergle 2010), future work is needed examining these issues specifically in rural areas.”