Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/248284 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Citation: 
[Journal:] Telematics and Informatics [ISSN:] 1879-324X [Volume:] 65 [Article No.:] 101730 [Publisher:] Elsevier [Place:] Amsterdam [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] --
Publisher: 
Elsevier, Amsterdam
Abstract: 
Although much has been published regarding street protests on social media, few works have attempted to characterize social media users’ spatial behavior in such events. The research reported here uses spatial capture-recapture methods to determine the influence of the built environment, physical proximity to protest location, and collective posting rhythm on variations in users’ spatial detectability and density during a protest in Mexico City. The best-obtained model, together with explaining the spatial density of users, shows that there is high variability in the probability of detection of social media user protest supporters and that the collective posting rhythm and the day of observation are significant explanatory factors. The implication is that studies of collective spatial behavior would benefit by focussing on users’ activity centres and their urban environment, rather than their physical proximity to the protest location, the latter being unable to adequately explain spatial variations in users’ probability of detection and density during the protest event.
Subjects: 
protest event
social media
posting rhythms
spatio–temporal behavior
urban environment
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Document Version: 
Manuscript Version (Preprint)

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