Yesterday, we posted a write-up to the excellent “Follow the Crowd” blog about our ICWSM 2014 paper that looks at urban and rural participation in social media.
We encourage folks to check out the post!
A Tale of Cities: Urban Biases in Volunteered Geographic Information
By Brent Hecht on
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Brent Hecht
Brent Hecht is an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Minnesota, where he co-leads the GroupLens Research lab. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern University, a Master’s degree in geography from UC Santa Barbara, and dual Bachelor’s degrees in computer science and geography from Macalester College. He was a keynote speaker at WikiSym – the premiere conference on wikis and open collaboration – and has received awards for his research at top-tier publication venues in human-computer interaction and geography (e.g. ACM CHI, ACM CSCW, COSIT). He has collaborated with Google Research, Xerox PARC, and Microsoft Research, and his work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review, New Scientist, AllThingsDigital, ACM TechNews, and various other international TV, radio, and Internet outlets.