does vgi have a future?
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Talk given by Matthew Zook at the 2012 AAG as part of a panel organized by Sarah Elwood, Michael Goodchild and Dan Sui.TRANSCRIPT
VGI: DOES IT HAVE A FUTURE?
Matthew Zook, University of KentuckyAAG 2012
Panel Session organized bySarah Elwood, Michael Goodchild and Dan
Sui
Issues
Sources General: Twitter, Foursquare, Google, Flickr,
Wikipedia Specific: BlueServo, PriceOfWeed.com
Data What is being measured? Textual? Visual? How
to clean/normalize data? Acknowledging Outliers
We are not really looking at society but subgroups
Volunteered vs. captured vs. “captuteered”
Roles of VGI
VGI as a data source VGI as a social tool VGI as representation VGI as surveillance,
sousveillance and “everyone looking at everyone”
PriceOfWeed.com
Roles of VGI
VGI as a data source VGI as a social tool VGI as representation VGI as surveillance,
sousveillance and “auprèsveillance”
Scipinious.comMashup program, using Google Maps API which
allowed people to make storm reports post Katrina
OSM and Haiti
Sean Groman, Fortius One
http://irevolution.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/maptivism-london/ http://bengoldacre.posterous.com/student-protestors-using-live-tech-to-outwit
Student Riots/Protests in London
http://dev.geosprocket.com/ironsheep/
Roles of VGI
VGI as a data source VGI as a social tool VGI as representation VGI as surveillance,
sousveillance and “auprèsveillance”
Capetown and Khayelitsha
THE BRONZE SOLDIER OF
TALLINN, ESTONIA
In April 2007 this Soviet era statue was relocated away from a
downtown plaza. Days of riots ensued
and followed by weeks of online
attacks on Estonian websites (the first
“cyberwar”).
Google Maps Search
3/14/2011
Still brings up the OLD not NEW location
Photos Labeled in English
Under police protection June 27, 2006 Tõnismägi park, the former place of the Bronze Soldier. Now a peaceful place, whlie [sic] the Bronze Soldier rests at the tranquil War Memorial
burial grounds
3/11/2011
Photos Labeled in Russian
Неизвестному солдату(To the unknown soldier)
"Здесь был" (It was here)
3/11/2011
Photos Labeled in Estonian
Tõnismägi (Anthony's Hill) Tõnismägi (Anthony's Hill)
3/11/2011
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Roles of VGI
VGI as a data source VGI as a social tool VGI as representation VGI as surveillance,
sousveillance and “everyone looking at everyone”
