Social Space and Social Media: Analyzing Urban Space with Big Data

This dissertation focuses on the key role that big data can play in minimizing the perceived disconnect between social theory and quantitative methods in the discipline of geography. It takes as its starting point the geographic concept of space, which is conceptualized very differently in social th...

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Main Author: Poorthuis, Ate
Format: Others
Published: UKnowledge 2015
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Online Access:http://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/41
http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1049&context=geography_etds