Matthew Zook, University of Kentucky
AAG 2012
Panel Session organized by
Sarah Elwood, Michael Goodchild and Dan
Sui

 Sources
 General: Twitter, Foursquare, Google, Flickr,
Wikipedia
 Specific: BlueServo, PriceOfWeed.com
 Data
 What is being measured? Textual? Visual? How to
clean/normalize data?
 Acknowledging Outliers
 We are not really looking at society but subgroups
 Volunteered vs. captured vs. “captuteered”

 VGI as a data source
 VGI as a social tool
 VGI as representation
 VGI as surveillance, sousveillance
and “everyone looking at everyone”

 VGI as a data source
 VGI as a social tool
 VGI as representation
 VGI as surveillance, sousveillance
and “auprèsveillance”

Mashup program, using Google Maps API which allowed
people to make storm reports post Katrina

Sean Groman, Fortius One

Student Riots/Protests in London
http://irevolution.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/maptivism-london/ http://bengoldacre.posterous.com/student-protestors-using-liv

http://dev.geosprocket.com/ironsheep/

 VGI as a data source
 VGI as a social tool
 VGI as representation
 VGI as surveillance, sousveillance
and “auprèsveillance”

In April 2007 this Soviet
era statue was relocated
away from a downtown
plaza. Days of riots
ensued and followed by
weeks of online attacks
on Estonian websites (the
first “cyberwar”).

Still brings up the OLD not NEW location
3/14/2011

Under police protection June 27, 2006 Tõnismägi park, the former place of the
Bronze Soldier. Now a peaceful place,
whlie [sic] the Bronze Soldier rests at the
tranquil War Memorial burial grounds
3/11/2011

"Здесь был" (It was here) Неизвестному солдату
(To the unknown soldier)
3/11/2011

Tõnismägi (Anthony's Hill) Tõnismägi (Anthony's Hill)
3/11/2011

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 VGI as a data source
 VGI as a social tool
 VGI as representation
 VGI as surveillance, sousveillance
and “everyone looking at everyone”