Publications

In addition to publications listed on this page, approaches developed in the SoMeCon project are also feeding into other research conducted at the Digital Geography Lab: https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/fi/organisations/digital-geography-lab/publications
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Väisänen, T., Heikinheimo, V., Hiippala, T., Toivonen, T. (Accepted /In press). Exploring human-nature interactions in national parks using social media photographs and computer vision. Conservation Biology.

Hausmann, A., Toivonen, T., Fink, C., Heikinheimo, V., Kulkarni, R., Tenkanen, H., & Di Minin, E. (2020). Understanding sentiment of national park visitors from social media data. People and Nature, 2(3), 750–760. https://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10130

Heikinheimo, V., Tenkanen, H., Bergroth, C., Järv, O., Hiippala, T., & Toivonen, T. (2020). Understanding the use of urban green spaces from user-generated geographic information. Landscape and Urban Planning, 201, [103845]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.103845

Toivonen, T., Heikinheimo, V., Fink, C., Hausmann, A., Hiippala, T., Järv, O., Tenkanen, H., Di Minin, E. (2019). Social media data for conservation science: a methodological overview. Biological Conservation, 233, 298–315. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.BIOCON.2019.01.023

Hausmann, A., Toivonen, T., Fink, C., Heikinheimo, V., Tenkanen, H., Butchart, S., Brooks, T. & Di Minin, E. (2019). Assessing global popularity and threats to Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas using social media dataScience of the Total Environment, , vol. 683, pp. 617-623. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.05.268

Hausmann, A., Toivonen, T., Slotow, R., Tenkanen, H., Moilanen, A., Heikinheimo, V., & Di Minin, E. (2018). Social Media Data Can Be Used to Understand Tourists’ Preferences for Nature-Based Experiences in Protected Areas. Conservation Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12343

Tenkanen, H., Di Minin, E., Heikinheimo, V., Hausmann, A., Herbst, M., Kajala, L., & Toivonen, T. (2017). Instagram, Flickr, or Twitter: Assessing the usability of social media data for visitor monitoring in protected areas. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 17615. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18007-4

Hausmann, A., Toivonen, T., Heikinheimo, V., Tenkanen, H., Slotow, R., & Di Minin, E. (2017). Social media reveal that charismatic species are not the main attractor of ecotourists to sub-Saharan protected areas. Scientific Reports, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00858-6

Heikinheimo, V., Di Minin, E., Tenkanen, H., Hausmann, A., Erkkonen, J., & Toivonen, T. (2017). User-Generated Geographic Information for Visitor Monitoring in a National Park: A Comparison of Social Media Data and Visitor Survey. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 6(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi6030085

Di Minin, E., Tenkanen, H., & Toivonen, T. (2015). Prospects and challenges for social media data in conservation science. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 3, 63. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2015.0006