Code Appendix for “Digital Ethnography”

require 'rubygems' require 'mechanize' require 'geokit' include Geokit::Geocoders

# intitialize agent and open page agent = Mechanize.new

# create a .txt file to save the results of the program in filename = 'MyspaceFriendListnew.txt' File.open filename, 'w' do |f|

f.puts "lat\tlon\ttitle\tdescription\ticonSize\ticonOffset\ticon"

friend_pagenumber = 1 # Fill in the starting page number of friend result pages BandName = 'thekominas' # Fill in the friendId of the band band_url = 'http://myspace.com/' + BandName + '/friends/all/page/' + friend_pagenumber.to_s page = agent.get(band_url)

count = 1

# loop through all the pages by clicking the 'next page' button as long as one exists begin

next_flag = FALSE count += 1

# find each friend page.search('div[@class = "details"]').each do |friend| geodone = FALSE

# print each friend's name # make sure that each friend has an actual name if friend.search('a[@class = "msProfileTextLink"]').first friend_name = friend.search('a[@class = "msProfileTextLink"]').first.text else friend_name = "" end

# print each friend's profile id friend_url = friend.search('a[@class = "msProfileTextLink"]/@href').first

puts friend_name

begin # begin find friend page and geolocate

friend_page = agent.get(friend_url)

if friend_page.search('//p[@class="even Location"]//text()').text

friend_page.search('//p[@class="even Location"]//text()').each do |item|

unless(item.content.include?('Profile Views') || item.content.include?('Last Login') || item.content.include?('years old') || item.content.include?('Male') || item.content.include?('Female') || item.content.include?('jello') || item.content.include?('coming soon') || item.content.include?('BANG BANG!') || item.content.include?('MyHot') || item.content.include?('View My') || item.content.include?('One Foot On') || item.content.include?('new beginning') || item.content.include?('padia') || item.content.include?('recording') || item.content.include?('grave') || item.content.include?('http://') || item.content.include?('RIP') || item.content.include?('Haad?') || item.content.include?('Hello.') || item.content.include?('OPA!') || item.content.include?('Here and Now') || item.content.include?('i, am') || item.content.include?('Kveldubach') || item.content.include?('Tiger baby') || item.content.include?('Misanthrope') || item.content.include?('D.I.Y.') || item.content.include?('Thrashing') || item.content.include?('Fire mares') || item.content.include?('studioAKT') || item.content.include?('Aloha!') || item.content.include?('Lost') || item.content.include?('3rd world') || item.content.include?('ane amma') || item.content.include?('deux') || item.content.include?('Millennium') || item.content.include?('realest') || item.content.include?('........°L°......') || item.content.include?('original') || item.content.include?('760') || item.content.include?('dead') || item.content.include?('~~~') || item.content.include?('One people!') || item.content.include?('Yeah!') || item.content.gsub(/[\s,\n]/,'').eql?('') || geodone) loc_info = item.content.strip loc=GoogleGeocoder.geocode(loc_info)

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