Introduction: Spatial Big Data and everyday life

Spatial Big Data—be this natively geocoded content, geographical metadata, or data that itself refers to spaces and places—has become a pervasive presence in the spaces and practices of everyday life. Beyond preoccupations with “the geotag” and with mapping geocoded social media content, this specia...

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Published inBig data & society Vol. 3; no. 2
Main Authors Leszczynski, Agnieszka, Crampton, Jeremy
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.09.2016
SAGE Publishing
Subjects
anxiety
Spatial Big Data
social media
everyday
geotag
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ISSN2053-9517
2053-9517
DOI10.1177/2053951716661366

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Summary:Spatial Big Data—be this natively geocoded content, geographical metadata, or data that itself refers to spaces and places—has become a pervasive presence in the spaces and practices of everyday life. Beyond preoccupations with “the geotag” and with mapping geocoded social media content, this special theme explores what it means to encounter and experience spatial Big Data as a quotidian phenomenon that is both spatial, characterized by and enacting of material spatialities, and spatializing, configuring relations between subjects, objects, and spaces in new and unprecedented ways.
ISSN:2053-9517
2053-9517
DOI:10.1177/2053951716661366