Enabling Protest with Foursquare

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.