Social media data for environmental sustainability: A critical review of opportunities, threats, and ethical use

A Ghermandi, J Langemeyer, D Van Berkel, F Calcagni… - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
Social media data are transforming sustainability science. However, challenges from
restrictions in data accessibility and ethical concerns regarding potential data misuse have …

Collecting, analyzing, and visualizing location-based social media data: review of methods in GIS-social media analysis

MK McKitrick, N Schuurman, VA Crooks - GeoJournal, 2023 - Springer
With billions of active users, social media platforms now generate spatial data on a massive
scale, which presents researchers with opportunities to use this data in new and innovative …

Evaluating the benefits and risks of social media for wildlife conservation

JN Bergman, RT Buxton, HY Lin, M Lenda, K Attinello… - Facets, 2022 - facetsjournal.com
Given its extensive volume and reach, social media has the potential to widely spread
conservation messaging and be a powerful tool to mobilize social change for conserving …

Using social media photos and computer vision to assess cultural ecosystem services and landscape features in urban parks

S Huai, F Chen, S Liu, F Canters, T Van de Voorde - Ecosystem Services, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban parks are important public places that provide an opportunity for city dwellers to
interact with nature. In recent years, social media data have become a promising data …

Factors influencing long-term city park visitations for mid-sized US cities: A big data study using smartphone user mobility

Y Song, G Newman, X Huang, X Ye - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
City parks provide essential services for the physical activities and the health improvement
of residents. Most related literature focuses on the factors affecting park visitations in large …

[HTML][HTML] Using social media data and machine learning to map recreational ecosystem services

C Nyelele, C Keske, MG Chung, H Guo, BN Egoh - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
Crowdsourced geotagged social media data and machine learning approaches have
emerged as promising tools for mapping ecosystem services, especially cultural ecosystem …

Geolocated social media data counts as a proxy for recreational visits in natural areas: a meta-analysis

A Ghermandi - Journal of Environmental Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Geolocated social media data counts are increasingly used as proxy for number of visits in
natural areas, including their spatial and temporal distribution. This paper synthesizes the …

Exploring public values through Twitter data associated with urban parks pre-and post-COVID-19

JH Huang, MF Floyd, LG Tateosian, JA Hipp - Landscape and Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
Since school and business closures due to the evolving COVID-19 outbreak, urban parks
have been a popular destination, offering spaces for daily fitness activities and an escape …

Eliciting users' preferences and values in urban parks: Evidence from analyzing social media data from Hong Kong

C Wan, GQ Shen, S Choi - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2021 - Elsevier
Users' preferences and values in urban parks is important information for establishing social
marketing strategies and therefore policymakers to consider. This study investigates the …

Using social media to measure and map visitation to public lands in Utah

H Zhang, D van Berkel, PD Howe, ZD Miller… - Applied Geography, 2021 - Elsevier
We used nine years of geotagged social media posts uploaded to Flickr and Panoramio to
investigate the ability of social media to measure and map spatial patterns in visitation to …