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Spatiotemporal Proximity and Social Distance

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Information filtering; Report confirmation

Glossary

LBSN:

Location-based social network

Heuristic principle:

An experience-based but fallible problem-solving approach

Information filtering:

An algorithm that aims at identifying relevant pieces of information

User-generated content:

Text, images, or other media published in a LBSN

Definition

Spatiotemporal proximity and social distance are two heuristic principles for filtering user-generated content produced by the members of a location-based social network (Schlieder and Yanenko 2010; Yap et al. 2012). Information filtering addresses the quality problem which arises when content is created by a large community of voluntary contributors as is the case in Web-based forms of participatory or citizen journalism. While the computational filtering approaches share some basic assumptions with the evaluation approach adopted in classical journalism, there are significant differences with respect to the scale of the problem and the...

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Schlieder, C. (2018). Spatiotemporal Proximity and Social Distance. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7131-2_326

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