Passive crowdsourcing of social media in environmental research
A systematic map
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12263293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Ghermandi (0000-0002-9403-4265, University of Haifa, corresponding author), Michael Sinclair (0000-0002-8666-2528, University of Haifa) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Pages | 36-47 |
| Publication date | 2019-02-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Global Environmental Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-3780 • E-ISSN: 1872-9495 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.02.003 |
| OpenAlex | W2912544980 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 73 |
| References cited | 164 |
The analysis of data from social media and social networking sites may be instrumental in achieving a better understanding of human-environment interactions and in shaping future conservation and environmental management. In this study, we systematically map the application of social media data in environmental research. The quantitative review of 169 studies reveals that most studies focus on the analysis of people’s behavior and perceptions of the environment, followed by environmental monitoring and applications in environmental planning and governance. The literature testifies to a very rapid growth in the field, with Twitter (52 studies) and Flickr (34 studies) being most frequently used as data sources. A growing number of studies combine data from multiple sites and jointly investigates multiple types of media. A broader, more qualitative review of the insights provided by the investigated studies suggests that while social media data offer unprecedented opportunities in terms of data volume, scale of analysis, and real-time monitoring, researchers are only starting to cope with the challenges of data’s heterogeneity and noise levels, potential biases, ethics of data acquisition and use, and uncertainty about future data availability. Critical areas for the development of the field include integration of different types of information in data mashups, development of quality assurance procedures and ethical codes, improved integration with existing methods, and assurance of long-term, free and easy-to-access provision of public social media data for future environmental researchers
Crowdsourcing · Data science · Social media · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis · Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
Using geotagged crowdsourced data to assess the diverse socio-cultural values of conservation areas
Describing and mapping where people experience tranquillity. An exploration based on interviews and Flickr photographs
Designing a smart city sustainability assessment information system based on the adapted SulpiTER methodology
Posting nature
The Societal Echo of Severe Weather Events
Using VGI and Social Media Data to Understand Urban Green Space
Using Flickr Data to Understand Image of Urban Public Spaces with a Deep Learning Model
Assessing Reliability of Chinese Geotagged Social Media Data for Spatiotemporal Representation of Human Mobility
Privacy-Aware Visualization of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) to Analyze Spatial Activity
Do typhoon disasters foster climate change concerns? Evidence from public discussions on social media in China
Dynamics of Cultural Ecosystem Services in rural landscape
Recreational use of protected areas
User-generated data to predict visitors in environmental areas
Digitally sourced data on popularity broaden the picture of tourism threats to natural World Heritage sites
Visitor flows to World Heritage Sites in the era of Instagram
Promises and pitfalls of using computer vision to make inferences about landscape preferences
Understanding the use of urban green spaces from user-generated geographic information
Which environmental features contribute to positive and negative perceptions of urban parks? A cross-cultural comparison using online reviews and Natural Language Processing methods
In the AI of the beholder
A trail-based approach using crowdsourced data to assess recreationists' preferences for landscape
How do ephemeral factors shape recreation along the urban river? A social media perspective
How do different types and landscape attributes of urban parks affect visitors' positive emotions
Integrating social media and survey data to map social landscape value in diverse municipal contexts
Window Expeditions
Mapping the online songbird trade in Indonesia
Digital forest recreation in the metaverse
Analyze the usage of urban greenways through social media images and computer vision
NLP-driven crowdsourcing for urban flood monitoring
The use of digital tools in forest tourism and recreation - Experiences from Warsaw agglomeration in Poland
Recreational beneficiaries and their landscape dependencies across national estuary program sites
Extracting sensory experiences and cultural ecosystem services from actively crowdsourced descriptions of everyday lived landscapes
Characterizing nature-based recreation preferences in a Mediterranean small island environment using crowdsourced data
An open‐source image classifier for characterizing recreational activities across landscapes
Harnessing artificial intelligence technology and social media data to support Cultural Ecosystem Service assessments
Social media and deep learning reveal specific cultural preferences for biodiversity
Exploring perceptions of Italian urban wildlife on TikTok
Social media and collective identity on protest, analysis comparative of Omnibus Law protest and Hongkong 19-20 protest
Sustainability assessment and intervention scenarios in a transnational watershed socioenvironmental system
Climate change and the demand for recreational ecosystem services on public lands in the continental United States
Novel insights on intensity and typology of direct human-nature interactions in protected areas through passive crowdsourcing
Geography of Discourse about a European Natural Park
Public Perceptions about Nepalese National Parks
Applying Novel Visitation Models using Diverse Social Media to Understand Recreation Change after Wildfire and Site Closure
Understanding human-environment interaction in urban spaces with emerging data-driven approach
Does geo-located social media reflect the visit frequency of urban parks? A city-wide analysis using the count and content of photographs
Screens, streams, and flows
Social media as a pathway to environmental conservation in protected areas
Investigating public biodiversity conservation awareness based on the propagation of wildlife-related incidents on the Sina Weibo social media platform
Ecosystem Services
Valuing Recreation in Italy's Protected Areas Using Spatial Big Data
Toward satisfactory public accessibility
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Visitation in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal
Plural relational green space values for whom, when, and where? – A social media approach
A text-messaging chatbot to support outdoor recreation monitoring through community science
Urban data
Impact of social media platforms on international public opinion during the Israel war on Gaza
Hidden drivers of social injustice
Using social media images as data in social science research
Using Flickr data and selected environmental characteristics to analyse the temporal and spatial distribution of activities in forest areas
How the natural environment in downtown neighborhood affects physical activity and sentiment
The coordination relationship between urban development and urban life satisfaction in Chinese cities - An empirical analysis based on multi-source data
Mobile phone network data reveal nationwide economic value of coastal tourism under climate change
Social media-based analysis of cultural ecosystem services and heritage tourism in a coastal region of Mexico
Modeling recreation and tourism demand using crowdsourced data
Using GPS tracking data from mobile fitness apps to understand user behaviour in protected areas
The effect of social network sites usage in climate change awareness in Latin America
Will the 'poor' perception of the environment in old urban areas lead to lower resident well-being?——exploring 'perception bias' in residential environment through spatial features and interpretable machine learning
Public attitudes toward state-led urban village rehabilitation in Shenzhen, China
Freshwater systems and ecosystem services
Using social media images to assess ecosystem services in a remote protected area in the Argentinean Andes
Social media and social impact assessment
Characterising and mapping potential and experienced tranquillity
Investigating cultural ecosystem services of the Caatinga on Flickr
Coupling mobile phone and social media data
Explore spatiotemporal and demographic characteristics of human mobility via Twitter
Guidelines for Systematic Review in Conservation and Environmental Management
Classifying urban land use by integrating remote sensing and social media data
Rapid assessment of disaster damage using social media activity
A review of citizen science and community-based environmental monitoring
Social Media Data Can Be Used to Understand Tourists’ Preferences for Nature‐Based Experiences in Protected Areas
A geographic approach for combining social media and authoritative data towards identifying useful information for disaster management
Visualizing the perceived environment using crowdsourced photo geodata
A rapid indicator of cultural ecosystem service usage at a fine spatial scale
Mapping the global value and distribution of coral reef tourism
A review of volunteered geographic information quality assessment methods
Delineating urban functional areas with building-level social media data
Continental-scale quantification of landscape values using social media data
Extracting and understanding urban areas of interest using geotagged photos
User-Generated Geographic Information for Visitor Monitoring in a National Park
Using social media photos to explore the relation between cultural ecosystem services and landscape features across five European sites
Climate Change Sentiment on Twitter
Instagram, Flickr, or Twitter
The geography of Twitter topics in London
Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
Social Media and Severe Weather
The Shaping of Environmental Information in Social Media
Merging Duke Energy and Progress Energy
Negotiating Virtue and Vice
Unravelling the Threads
YouTube, Social Norms and Perceived Salience of Climate Change in the American Mind
A Coefficient of Agreement for Nominal Scales
Identification of tourist hot spots based on social networks
Utilizing Crowdsourced Data for Studies of Cycling and Air Pollution Exposure
Examining Associations of Environmental Characteristics with Recreational Cycling Behaviour by Street-Level Strava Data
The Online Dissemination of Nature–Health Concepts
Urban Green Space Perception and Its Contribution to Well-Being
Social-media data for urban sustainability
The quality of big (geo)data
The potential of microblogs for the study of public perceptions of climate change
Crowdsourcing functions of the living city from Twitter and Foursquare data
Spatial, temporal, and socioeconomic patterns in the use of Twitter and Flickr
The socio-environmental data explorer (Sede)
Spatial patterns and demographic indicators of effective social media content during theHorsethief Canyon fire of 2012
Crowdsourcing a cyclist perspective on suggested recreational paths in real-world networks
Young people’s conversations about environmental and sustainability issues in social media
Environmental learning in online social networks
Public microblogging on climate change
Polarized frames on “climate change” and “global warming” across countries and states
Network analysis reveals open forums and echo chambers in social media discussions of climate change
People as sensors
Mapping the climate sceptical blogosphere
Following the Leader
Towards credibility of micro-blogs
Citizens as sensors
Ecotourism experiences reported online
Exploring the travel behaviors of inbound tourists to Hong Kong using geotagged photos
Mapping Cilento
Analysis of wildlife tourism experiences with endangered species
Assessment of online public opinions on large infrastructure projects
Digital technology and the conservation of nature
Between two hypes
Researching Volunteered Geographic Information
Citizen Science in the Age of Neogeography
Feed them to the lions
A pipeline of tweets
The thrill of the chase
Performing politics on social media
Using crowdsourced imagery to detect cultural ecosystem services
Area-Based Topic Modeling and Visualization of Social Media for Qualitative GIS
| Unique citing works | 73 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 12,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 72 |