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Does Tobler’s first law of geography apply to internet attention? A case study of the Asian elephant northern migration event

One of the basic assumptions of spatial theory is formulated in Waldo Tobler’s first law of geography: "everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things." However, as internet space is a complex virtual space independent of the real world, whet...

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Autores principales: Zheng, Boming, Lin, Xijie, Yin, Duo, Qi, Xinhua
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9977022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36857382
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282474
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author Zheng, Boming
Lin, Xijie
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Qi, Xinhua
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description One of the basic assumptions of spatial theory is formulated in Waldo Tobler’s first law of geography: "everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things." However, as internet space is a complex virtual space independent of the real world, whether this law is applicable to things in the internet space remains to be explored in depth. Therefore, this study takes the event of Asian elephant northern migration as an example, attempts to investigate the issue of the applicability of Tobler’s first law of geography to internet attention by integrating geographic methods such as spatial visualization, spatial correlation analysis, and Geo-detector. The results show that Tobler’s first law of geography does not fully apply to internet attention, which does not decay with increasing distance. Geographical distance, within certain boundaries, is influenced by "identity" and "relevance", and still plays a large role in internet attention. However, once the boundaries are exceeded, the impact of geographic distance on internet attention is weakened by the intervention of influencing factors such as the degree of information technology, population, and the strength of news media publicity. Overall, the strength of news media publicity has the greatest impact on internet attention. And when it interacts with geographic proximity, it has the most significant effect on internet attention.
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spelling pubmed-99770222023-03-02 Does Tobler’s first law of geography apply to internet attention? A case study of the Asian elephant northern migration event Zheng, Boming Lin, Xijie Yin, Duo Qi, Xinhua PLoS One Research Article One of the basic assumptions of spatial theory is formulated in Waldo Tobler’s first law of geography: "everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things." However, as internet space is a complex virtual space independent of the real world, whether this law is applicable to things in the internet space remains to be explored in depth. Therefore, this study takes the event of Asian elephant northern migration as an example, attempts to investigate the issue of the applicability of Tobler’s first law of geography to internet attention by integrating geographic methods such as spatial visualization, spatial correlation analysis, and Geo-detector. The results show that Tobler’s first law of geography does not fully apply to internet attention, which does not decay with increasing distance. Geographical distance, within certain boundaries, is influenced by "identity" and "relevance", and still plays a large role in internet attention. However, once the boundaries are exceeded, the impact of geographic distance on internet attention is weakened by the intervention of influencing factors such as the degree of information technology, population, and the strength of news media publicity. Overall, the strength of news media publicity has the greatest impact on internet attention. And when it interacts with geographic proximity, it has the most significant effect on internet attention. Public Library of Science 2023-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9977022/ /pubmed/36857382 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282474 Text en © 2023 Zheng et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Does Tobler’s first law of geography apply to internet attention? A case study of the Asian elephant northern migration event
title Does Tobler’s first law of geography apply to internet attention? A case study of the Asian elephant northern migration event
title_full Does Tobler’s first law of geography apply to internet attention? A case study of the Asian elephant northern migration event
title_fullStr Does Tobler’s first law of geography apply to internet attention? A case study of the Asian elephant northern migration event
title_full_unstemmed Does Tobler’s first law of geography apply to internet attention? A case study of the Asian elephant northern migration event
title_short Does Tobler’s first law of geography apply to internet attention? A case study of the Asian elephant northern migration event
title_sort does tobler’s first law of geography apply to internet attention? a case study of the asian elephant northern migration event
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9977022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36857382
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282474
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