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A Beginner’s Guide to Geographic Virtual Communities Research

A Beginner’s Guide to Geographic Virtual Communities Research

A Canary in the AI Coal Mine: American Jews May Be Disproportionately Harmed by Intellectual Property Dispossession in Large Language Model Training

scientific article published on 11 May 2024

A Deeper Investigation of the Importance of Wikipedia Links to Search Engine Results

scientific article published on 13 April 2021

A User Interface for Encoding Space Usage Rules Expressed in Natural Language

All That’s Happening behind the Scenes: Putting the Spotlight on Volunteer Moderator Labor in Reddit

scientific article published on 31 May 2022

Avoiding the South Side and the Suburbs

scientific article published in 2015

Barriers to the Localness of Volunteered Geographic Information

Evaluating automatically generated location-based stories for tourists

scholarly article published 2008

Examining Wikipedia With a Broader Lens

scientific article published in 2018

Explanatory semantic relatedness and explicit spatialization for exploratory search

Falling asleep with Angry Birds, Facebook and Kindle

scholarly article published 2011

Freedom versus Standardization

article

Geographic human-computer interaction

Geographic human-computer interaction

scientific article

Helping Computers Understand Geographically-Bound Activity Restrictions

scholarly article published 2016

Improving interaction with virtual globes through spatial thinking

scientific article published on 17 June 2008

Informing online and mobile map design with the collective wisdom of cartographers

Measuring self-focus bias in community-maintained knowledge repositories

scientific article published in 2009

Measuring the Monetary Value of Online Volunteer Work

scientific article published on 31 May 2022

Not at Home on the Range: Peer Production and the Urban/Rural Divide

article

Omnipedia: bridging the wikipedia language gap

scientific article published in 2012

Pharos

scholarly article

Problematizing and Addressing the Article-as-Concept Assumption in Wikipedia

scientific article published on 25 February 2017

ScrollingHome

Social media question asking workshop

scientific article published in 2013

StripeMaps

SubwayPS

Terabytes of Tobler: Evaluating the First Law in a Massive, Domain-Neutral Representation of World Knowledge

scientific article published on 14 September 2009

The Dimensions of Data Labor: A Road Map for Researchers, Activists, and Policymakers to Empower Data Producers

scientific article published on 12 June 2023

The Geography and Importance of Localness in Geotagged Social Media

scholarly article published 2016

The Geography of Pokémon GO

The Substantial Interdependence of Wikipedia and Google: A Case Study on the Relationship Between Peer Production Communities and Information Technologies

scientific article

The Substantial Interdependence of Wikipedia and Google: A Case Study on the Relationship Between Peer Production Communities and Information Technologies

scientific article published on 3 May 2017

The Success and Failure of Quality Improvement Projects in Peer Production Communities

article

The tower of Babel meets web 2.0: user-generated content and its applications in a multilingual context

scientific article

To search or to ask

scientific article published in 2014

Toward Universal Spatialization Through Wikipedia-Based Semantic Enhancement

scientific article published on 9 April 2019

VizByWiki: Mining Data Visualizations from the Web to Enrich News Articles

scientific article published in 2018

You Can't Smoke Here

“Blissfully happy” or “ready to fight”: Varying Interpretations of Emoji

scholarly paper