This chapter surveys the rapid rise of social media in a range of disaster experiences,
reviewing topics of citizen reporting, community-oriented computing, distributed problem …

Eminent critic Achille Mbembe reevaluates history and racism, offering a capacious
genealogy of the category of Blackness—from the Atlantic slave trade to the present—to …

" Carefully distinguishing between big data and open data, and exploring various data
infrastructures, Kitchin vividly illustrates how the data landscape is rapidly changing and …

This review examines emerging research on the geoweb, particularly recent efforts to
assess the social, political and disciplinary shifts associated with it. The rise of the geoweb is …

Reacting to critiques that the smart city is overly technocratic and instrumental, companies
and cities have reframed their initiatives as 'citizen-centric'. However, what 'citizen …

This paper outlines the ways in which information technologies (ITs) were used in the Haiti
relief effort, especially with respect to web‐based map** services. Although there were …

The convergence of newly interactive Web-based technologies with growing practices of
user-generated content disseminated on the Internet is generating a remarkable new form of …

Social media is an invaluable source of time-critical information during a crisis. However,
emergency response and humanitarian relief organizations that would like to use this …

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 …

High-resolution urban land use maps have important applications in urban planning and
management, but the availability of these maps is low in countries such as China. To …