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Research
My current work focuses on location-based technology and its intersection with local social interactions. More specifically, I study how the use of services like foursquare affects users daily life. By examining these interactions on both large and small scale we can learn about people’s patterns of behavior and the different forces that shape them.
Publications
Hochman N., Schwartz R. (2012) Visualizing Instagram: Tracing Cultural Visual Rhythms. To appear in the Workshop on Social Media Visualization (SocMedVis) in conjunction with The Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-12). Dublin, Ireland, June 2012. > Paper [PDF]
Schwartz, R. (2012) The Networked Familiar Stranger: An Aspect of Virtual and Local Urban Anonymity. In Cumiskey, K., and Hjorth, L., eds., Seamlessly Mobile? Mobile Media Practices, Presence & Politics. Routledge (under review).
Cranshaw J., Schwartz R., Hong J. I., and Sadeh N. (2012) The Livehoods Project: Utilizing Social Media to Understand the Dynamics of a City. To appear in The Sixth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM-12). Dublin, Ireland, June 2012. > Paper [PDF]