Using Location-Based Social Media to Chart the Patterns of People Moving between Cities: The Case of Weibo-Users in the Yangtze River Delta

doi:10.1080/10630732.2016.1177259

	Using Location-Based Social Media to Chart the Patterns of People Moving between Cities: The Case of Weibo-Users in the Yangtze River Delta
	Zhang, Weiyang 1; Derudder, Ben 1; Wang, Jianghao 1,2; Shen, Wei 1,3,4,5; Witlox, Frank 1,6,7
刊名	JOURNAL OF URBAN TECHNOLOGY
	2016-07-01
卷号	23 期号:3 页码:91-111
关键词	social media Weibo inter-city connections Yangtze River Delta polycentricity China
ISSN号	1063-0732
DOI	10.1080/10630732.2016.1177259
通讯作者	Derudder, Ben(ben.derudder@ugent.be)
英文摘要	Urban-geographical research using location-based social media (LBSM) has itself been characterized by uneven geographies in that most studies deal with Europe and North America. This implies a relative dearth of studies focusing on countries such as China, and this in spite of the country having the largest number of Internet users in the world. This paper proposes to address this lacuna by showing the research potential of LBSM services associated with Weibo, by far the most popular online social microblogging and networking service in China. To this end, we map inter-city connections within the Yangtze River Delta based on three million individuals' space-time footprints derived from Weibo. Empirical results reveal that the inter-city connections derived from Weibo present both common and specific spatial patterns associated with inter-city travel. We find that a small percentage of cities and city-dyads constitute the backbone of this inter-city network. The dominant direction of individual flows tends to be from primary cities to sub-primary cities, and from peripheral cities to primary cities. In addition, city-dyad connectivities do not strictly follow cities' positions in terms of their centralities in the hierarchical distribution. Furthermore, the effects of administrative boundaries and cities' administrative level are significant. We benchmark these insights by re-examining our findings against the backdrop of polycentric developments in the Yangtze River Delta, which confirms the potential usefulness of LBSM data for analyzing urban-geographical patterns.
资助项目	Open Research Fund Program of the Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Spatial Smart Sensing and Services (Shenzhen University)
WOS关键词	WORLD CITY SYSTEM ; NETWORKS ; CONTEXT
WOS研究方向	Urban Studies
语种	英语
出版者	ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
WOS记录号	WOS:000388505700006
资助机构	Open Research Fund Program of the Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Spatial Smart Sensing and Services (Shenzhen University)
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/65727]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Derudder, Ben
作者单位	1.Univ Ghent, Dept Geog, Krijgslaan 281-S8, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium 2.Chinese Acad Sci, State Key Lab Resources & Environm Informat Syst, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Univ Lancaster, Int Business, Sch Management, Lancaster, England 4.Confucius Inst, Beijing, Peoples R China 5.EU Asia Inst, ESSCA Sch Management, EU China Relat, Angers, France 6.Univ Ghent, Econ Geog, Dept Geog, Ghent, Belgium 7.Univ Tartu, Fac Sci & Technol, Dept Geog, Tartu, Estonia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Weiyang,Derudder, Ben,Wang, Jianghao,et al. Using Location-Based Social Media to Chart the Patterns of People Moving between Cities: The Case of Weibo-Users in the Yangtze River Delta[J]. JOURNAL OF URBAN TECHNOLOGY,2016,23(3):91-111.
APA	Zhang, Weiyang,Derudder, Ben,Wang, Jianghao,Shen, Wei,&Witlox, Frank.(2016).Using Location-Based Social Media to Chart the Patterns of People Moving between Cities: The Case of Weibo-Users in the Yangtze River Delta.JOURNAL OF URBAN TECHNOLOGY,23(3),91-111.
MLA	Zhang, Weiyang,et al."Using Location-Based Social Media to Chart the Patterns of People Moving between Cities: The Case of Weibo-Users in the Yangtze River Delta".JOURNAL OF URBAN TECHNOLOGY 23.3(2016):91-111.