Abstract “Food processing 4.0” concept denotes processing food in the current digital era by
harnessing fourth industrial revolution (called Industry 4.0) technologies to improve quality …

In less than a decade Bitcoin and the technology of blockchain–a cryptographically-secured,
algorithmically-regulated, distributed-ledger–emerged as the enfant terrible of the global …

This paper grounds the critique of the 'smart city'in its historical and geographical context.
Adapting Brenner and Theodore's notion of 'actually existing neoliberalism', we suggest a …

Big data is increasingly seen as a way of providing a more 'scientific'approach to the
understanding and management of cities. But most geographic analyses of geotagged …

New methods to analyse social media data provide a powerful way to know publics and
capture what they say and do. At the same time, access to these methods is uneven, with …

The generation and processing of data through digital technologies is an integral element of
contemporary society, as reflected in recent debates over online data privacy,'Big Data'and …

Conservationists, governments, and corporations see promise in digital technologies to
provide holistic, rapid, and objective information to inform policy, shape investments, and …

As digital social data have become increasingly ubiquitous, many have turned their attention
to harnessing these massive data sets in order to produce purportedly more accurate and …

This chapter does two things. First, it provides a rationale for the book's focus on social
media data mining. Then it describes in detail what social media data mining is. As the …

Spatial technologies and the organizations around them, such as the Standby Task Force
and Ushahidi, are increasingly changing the ways crises and emergencies are addressed …