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Taking the Pulse of US College Campuses with Location-Based Anonymous Mobile Apps
2017
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
We deploy GPS hacking in conjunction with location-based mobile apps to passively survey users in targeted geographical regions. Specifically, we investigate surveying students at different college campuses with Yik Yak, an anonymous mobile app that is popular on US college campuses. In addition to being campus centric, Yik Yak's anonymity allows students to express themselves candidly without self-censorship. We collect nearly 1.6 million Yik Yak messages ("yaks") from a diverse set of 45
doi:10.1145/3078843
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