Post on 09-May-2015
description
Geosocial: Enabling Protest with FoursquareUsing Location-based Social Media to Organize
Chris Dufourdu4@mustbeawesome.com
Workshop Objectives Review potential influence applications
and importance of geosocial services.
Learn the basics of the Foursquare app.
Find a secretly organized protest in London.
Agenda Intro to geosocial & location-based apps
Download Foursquare app
Foursquare 101
User instruction
Practical exercise scenario
Checking in
People love checking in
Most popular geocial apps
Data EVERYWHERE
Sample data analytics
Foursquare merchant dashboard
APIs Application Programming Interface.
This is the source code for apps.
For geosocial apps, making an API open enables others to build additional apps on top of yours or access the data produced.
Apps built on APIs
Why geosocial is important Users voluntarily tell you where they are.
Users voluntarily tell you about things that matter to them.
Data produced by these apps comes from open APIs that are... Analyzable Trackable Hackable
Why Foursquare?
15 million users globally
To the app store! https://foursquare.com/download/
Foursquare 101 Setting up your account
App basics
Tips
Checking in
Advanced usage
Setting up your account
Checking in
Advanced usage Lists
Explore
Following pages
Foursquare.com
Badge lists
Lists
Explore
Following pages
Foursquare.com
http://www.badgeunlock.com/foursquare-badge-list/
Practical Exercise
Scenario The UK government has cracked down on
a group of activists who have been protesting actively in London.
This group – CONDESCENDING WONKAS – uses Foursquare to secretly organize.
Your mission is to join the next protest.
When you find the protest… Check into the venue using hashtag #wonkas
Leave a tip acknowledging you’ve found it.
Take a photo of you checking in.
Share your check-in with me via du4@mustbeawesome.com or @Du4 on Twitter
Sharing your check-in In your check-in share, describe what
you’ve learned from the exercise.
Conditions Your objective is somewhere within
walking distance of Charing Cross.
You have till 1200 hours local time, Thursday 28 June 2012 to complete the exercise and send in your feedback.
Feedback will be collated and briefed to the IO Conference at 1400 hours.
Bonus points for unlocking badges!
First clues Have you checked into Charing Cross
Hotel yet?
There are multiple ways to reach the protest objective.