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Finding the local in locations: Working with GPS non-use in Nairobi
- Source :
- XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students. 26:32-35
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2019.
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Abstract
- The Nairobi Accident Map crowdsourced traffic accident reports on social media and geocoded them using the landmarks and road names mentioned in social media posts. In doing so, the project centered the agency and local practices of Kenyan social media users.
- Subjects :
- Kenya
business.industry
Traffic accident
05 social sciences
020207 software engineering
02 engineering and technology
Public relations
Geography
Geocoding
Agency (sociology)
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Global Positioning System
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Social media
business
Accident (philosophy)
050107 human factors
General Environmental Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15284980 and 15284972
- Volume :
- 26
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........30acc5c253201a9cfb5143dcb0d753aa
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3368065