The human geography of Twitter: Quantifying regional identity and inter-region communication in England and Wales.

ABSTRACT: Given the centrality of regions in social movements, politics and public administration, here we aim to quantitatively study regional identity, cross-region communication and sentiment. This paper presents a new methodology to study social interaction within and between social-geographic regions, and then applies the methodology to a case study of England and Wales. We use a social network, built from geo-located Twitter data, to identify contiguous geographical regions with a shared social identity and then investigate patterns of communication within and between them. In contrast to other approaches (e.g. using phone call data records or online friendship networks), use of Twitter data provides message contents as well as social connections. This allows us to investigate not only the vol

SUBMITTER: Arthur R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6464185 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature