"Comprehensive and insightful, Spatializing Social Media provides a fascinating, in-depth analysis of the relationship between the social, spatial and virtual, and the confluence and divergence of social networks on- and offline. Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the societal and spatial operations and impacts of social media." -- Rob Kitchin, Professor of Geography at Maynooth University, Ireland
"Spatializing Social Media provides an original and highly promising framework for the analysis of social media by focusing on the spatial patterns of digital interactions. This place-based perspective is bound to deepen our understanding of the role and effects of digital media in social life. By providing his readers with instructive case studies and a ready-made analytical tool kit, Bastos has made his book into the natural origin point of a new wave of studies with and on social media." -- Andreas Jungherr, Professor for Digital Transformation and Publics at University of Jena, Germany
"By focusing on theoretically grounded suggestions about what we as researchers can actually do once we get our hands on data, the perspectives contained in this book should remain valid for a long stretch of time. Spatializing Social Media appears as more than a methods book, much like it reads as more than theoretical account." -- Anders Olaf Larsson, Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Kristiania University College, Norway
"The idea that network analysis and geographic relationships are close cousins has long been understood, but the details of laying bare these relationships are too often addressed with hand-waving. Hidden beneath the title of Bastoss new book is a thorough exploration of the ways in which networked approaches can be employed to provide a much better understanding of flows in online and offline spaces. The broad theoretical and practical approaches will provide the casual reader a sophisticated introduction to networked spaces, while leaving much to engage more experienced scholars as well." -- Alexander Halavais, Associate Professor of Critical Data Studies at Arizona State University, United States of America
"Comprehensive and insightful, Spatializing Social Media provides a fascinating, in-depth analysis of the relationship between the social, spatial and virtual, and the confluence and divergence of social networks on- and offline. Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the societal and spatial operations and impacts of social media." -- Rob Kitchin, Professor of Geography at Maynooth University, Ireland
"Spatializing Social Media provides an original and highly promising framework for the analysis of social media by focusing on the spatial patterns of digital interactions. This place-based perspective is bound to deepen our understanding of the role and effects of digital media in social life. By providing his readers with instructive case studies and a ready-made analytical tool kit, Bastos has made his book into the natural origin point of a new wave of studies with and on social media." -- Andreas Jungherr, Professor for Digital Transformation and Publics at University of Jena, Germany
"By focusing on theoretically grounded suggestions about what we as researchers can actually do once we get our hands on data, the perspectives contained in this book should remain valid for a long stretch of time. Spatializing Social Media appears as more than a methods book, much like it reads as more than theoretical account." -- Anders Olaf Larsson, Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Kristiania University College, Norway
"The idea that network analysis and geographic relationships are close cousins has long been understood, but the details of laying bare these relationships are too often addressed with hand-waving. Hidden beneath the title of Bastoss new book is a thorough exploration of the ways in which networked approaches can be employed to provide a much better understanding of flows in online and offline spaces. The broad theoretical and practical approaches will provide the casual reader a sophisticated introduction to networked spaces, while leaving much to engage more experienced scholars as well." -- Alexander Halavais, Associate Professor of Critical Data Studies at Arizona State University, United States of America
