Follow the Geographic Information: The Challenges of Spatial Analysis in Digital Methods

In the digital environment, defined as aspace with no anchors (Menduni2014), the spatial dimension may have a significant role, mostly in relation totheInternet or digital studies. Social Media Geographic Information (Campagna et al.2016),even if limited, can be highly useful to overcome some limitations of social media analysis and user generated content. With theobjective to report the potential and limits of this approach, in this articlea case study will be presentedon the individual perception related to COVID-19 in Italy. Starting from the analysis of ecological dataand the social media data, we reproduce threemeasuresby exploring three different elements that could be anchored to a geographical dimension: the storytelling of COVID(COVID-Issues), the spread of infection (COVID-Spread), and the distribution of measures (COVID-Measures) to understand the regional trends of the second wave of the pandemic emergencethat represent the timespanof this contribution.