
Asst. Professor @blousteinschool @RutgersU (Ph.D. @BerkeleyGeog @calnewmedia) researching spatial data & urban inequality, 🗺🍳👾🎶🏞 lover, parent. He/him.
New Jersey, USA
Joined April 2008
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Infrastructure Week (🤞?) is the perfect time for the new piece @jostehlin and I have out in @theAAG Annals! "Mesoscale Infrastructures and Uneven Development: Bicycle Sharing Systems in the United States as 'Already Splintered' Urbanism" 50 eprints here: tandfonline.com/eprint/UUIQH…
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Tech firms shape cities to generate data for their digital products, creating a feedback loop: they invest in urban property & design spaces that capture and reinforce consumer preferences.
New open-access paper w/ Anthony Levenda & @aliciacsabatino
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Dr. Will Payne @willbpayne was featured on Rutgers Today for his #research about #review #bombing published in @BigDataSoc. “Simply put, everything you think you know about review bombing is wrong.” Read more: rutgers.edu/news/not-all-rev…
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Proptech and the private rental sector: New forms of extraction at the intersection of #RentalProperties and platform rentierisation by @DallasRogers101, @SophiaMaalsen, Peta Wolifson & @FieldsDesiree
ow.ly/blQ650TSrZg
#OpenAccess #BuiltToRent
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Tomorrow (10/29): CEGU welcomes Professor Julie Michelle Klinger for her talk, "Wasting & Wanting: An Extractive Supply Chain Approach to Outer Space Geographies." See below or visit our website for details.
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Excited to see this out in @dig_geo! Fun and insightful to examine mundane file formats through the mode of production. This paper looks at the histories of GeoJSON and the Esri Shapefile.
doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.202…
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How can digital platforms like TripAdvisor turn nature into tourism commodities? Using digital environmental biopower to classify and rank natural areas, @juan_asta, @agaleszczynski, & Gaillard highlight the biopolitical impact on conservation in Chile. bit.ly/3TSLdch
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How do you create a political community in the most diverse county in the USA? In this article, James DeFilippis & Elana Simon explore this by looking at electoral politics in Queens, NY tinyurl.com/2dcuacse
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Dr. @willbpayne used #spatiotemporal analysis of #Yelp #review activity to depict and analyze the shifting catchment areas of local businesses, as measured through the locations of their reviewers over time and across review categories. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
New article out @BigDataSoc (*open access*) looking at political speech in local reviews (mostly @Yelp w/ some discussion of @googlemaps), considering the spatial structure and social implications of "review bombing" w/2 case studies (#pizzagate & #blm): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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How can we track rising #corporate #investor #ownership of #residential properties? @RutgersU professors @EricCSeymour, Kathe Newman, & @willbpayne are converting non-spatial tax data into a spatial dataset, uniting it w/ #housing and #mortgage data. policylab.rutgers.edu/making…
New article out @BigDataSoc (*open access*) looking at political speech in local reviews (mostly @Yelp w/ some discussion of @googlemaps), considering the spatial structure and social implications of "review bombing" w/2 case studies (#pizzagate & #blm): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Kicking off the academic year with a new paper in @SF_Journal 🥳 Coauthored with the wonderful @drschut and @CourtneyBoen, we find that FQHCs are associated with improved health care access for migrant farmworkers, particular those who are undocumented doi.org/10.1093/sf/soae111
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Ever wanted to research mobility patterns but no idea where to start looking for data? @qingqingchen77, @mattzook and I are releasing a dataset originally based on geotagged social media posts by 2 mln users across the US, containing 1.2 bln data points sent between 2012-2019.
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Day 1 | 🌅
1: @manissamm, @miekotarrius, Tianyi Tang
2: @ianguelovski, Jiaqi Wang, @kaseyzap, @smartucci_phd
3: @EOscilowicz, Raúl Marino Zamudio, Safaa Monqid, @jacobboersema
4: @willbpayne, @K_Santellano, @hesu_yoon, @hakeembbishi
5: Reina Murray, @profchapple, @galiashok1
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OakDOT Killing Grand Avenue Road Diet at AC Transit’s Request sf.streetsblog.org/2023/07/1…
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I couldn't be more excited to share the cover of @chaykak's FILTERWORLD, out from @doubledaybooks in Jan 2024. A hugely revelatory look into how algorithms shape not just what culture we consume, but what culture is produced-- and the unsettling empty sameness that results
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Not your typical Mississippi River map, this fascinating 1960 chart shows the amount of inland freight tonnage moving up and down the river and its tributaries!
Zoom in closer here: loc.gov/resource/g4042m.ct00…
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OnlineFirst - "An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city" by @bvanveelen and @SarahEKnuth:
@LUCSUS_LU @GeogDurham #masstimber #urbanbioeconomy #sociotechnicalimaginaries #plyscraper
journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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I wrote for @Harpers about who might actually be behind the more than 100,000 killings and disappearances in Mexico since 2006 via a review of two books:
@Oswaldo__Zavala "Drug Cartels Do Not Exist"
& @benjamintsmith7 "The Dope"
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