Gentrification (The Long and Dirty Word)Introduction and Research QuestionGentrification is happening in my community. I live in the Bronx but went to high school in Harlem and around my sophomore year I started noticing new apartments being built in place of old housing projects, particularly in East Harlem (Spanish Harlem). I saw some of the prices for these apartments and knew that people in the neighborhood couldn't afford to live there. I live about a block from the "projects" and in recent years many new businesses have been built. Before coming to Bowdoin, I noticed that there was a change in the management of my building and that many repairs were underway. Everything seemed “glamorous”: the parking lot, the entrance halls and even the mailboxes! When I returned home for the Thanksgiving holiday, I discovered that the rent (which had been rising steadily) had been raised again, but this time by 50%. Reading articles like Business Insider's "East Harlem: A neighborhood struggling to maintain its culture in the face of gentrification" made me think about what I saw in Spanish Harlem and made me wondering if this was happening to my neighborhood. This helped me realize that gentrification is not something that only happens in public places or is simply aimed at reducing crime rates, as much as politicians try to promote it. My experience is consistent with the traditional definition of gentrification: when a group of people are displaced to meet the needs of a more privileged population. Through the analysis of my Twitter data and the help of Google Trends, Gephi, Social Explorer, Batch Geo and the World Wide Web, I discovered that gentrification is not only physical, it is also virtual. By examining the context in which #gentrification is used, this article seeks to show the change in the use of the word gentrification depending on the space in which it is used. First Hypothesis I expected to find many tweets from the coast Is because I thought gentrification mainly affected people in New York. I didn't expect to find tweets from outside the US, nor did I expect to find tweets in other languages. I expected all the tweets to talk about gentrification as something they were powerless to combat...