"Anyone Know What Species This Is?" - Twitter Conversations as Embryonic Citizen Science Communities.

ABSTRACT: Social media like blogs, micro-blogs or social networks are increasingly being investigated and employed to detect and predict trends for not only social and physical phenomena, but also to capture environmental information. Here we argue that opportunistic biodiversity observations published through Twitter represent one promising and until now unexplored example of such data mining. As we elaborate, it can contribute to real-time information to traditional ecological monitoring programmes including those sourced via citizen science activities. Using Twitter data collected for a generic assessment of social media data in ecological monitoring we investigated a sample of what we denote biodiversity observations with species determination requests (N = 191). These entail images posted as me

SUBMITTER: Daume S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4788454 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature