Quantifying and visualizing language diversity of Hong Kong using Twitter

Naizhuo Zhao and Guofeng Cao

Environment and Planning A, 2017, vol. 49, issue 12, 2698-2701

Abstract: The wide penetration of location-aware mobile devices and location-based services renders the location-based social media as a reliable proxy to study the real-world geographic space. Language diversity is an important indicator of a city's internationalization level. People communicate using different languages in the cyberspace of social media as they do in the geographic space. The location-based social media therefore provides an innovative set of lens to map the language diversity and study the internationalization of cities. In the enclosed graphics, based on a collection of geo-tagged Twitter posts, we generated a fine resolution map of language diversity index in the area of Hong Kong to illustrate the potential of location-based social media in city research.

Keywords: Big data; city; language diversity; location-based social media; Twitter (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0308518X17722369

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