Cartographical Representation of Ferguson Shooting Utilizing Twitter

You can see the scale of Twitter's influence in a visualization showing tweets relating to the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri after Michael Brown was shot and killed by local police officer Darren Wilson.

The Geography of Hate

Geography of Hate is part of a larger project by Dr. Monica Stephens of Humboldt State University (HSU) identifying the geographic origins of online hate speech.

Maps as Entertainment

"Maps have always had admirers: people collect them, display them, linger over them in museum exhibitions. Yet it is only in recent years that geography, organized not on paper but online, has really arrived as popular enterainment — as diverting as the latest stupid video your Facebook friends are linking to yet somehow more virtuous or, at times, titillating. Or both."

Via nytimes.com



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