Social Phenomena

Where people take photos

Mapping places of interest based on geotags in Flickr photos (by Eric Fischer).
Excitement is had here by Fast Company and here by FlowingData. A rough effort to break apart the photos of tourists and residents is shown here:
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Play networks

Social networks = platform for game dynamics:




Some puzzling maps:

What?

Empireal disintegration.


Social contagion, a review

The New York Times looks back at the work of Christakis and Fowler on social contagion.
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Identity, Self-Awareness, and Twitter

From the New York Times Magazine, a great, mutlifacted article about how we communicate online.