Location-Based Social Media : Space, Time and Identity - Palgrave Pivot
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This book extends current understandings of the effects of using locative social media on spatiality, the experience of time and identity. This is a pertinent and timely topic given the increase in opportunities people now have to explicitly and implicitly share their location through digital and mobile technologies. There is a growing body of research on locative media, much of this literature has concentrated on spatial issues. Research here has explored how locative media and location-based social media (LBSN) are used to communicate and coordinate social interactions in public space, affecting how people approach their surroundings, turning ordinary life "into a game", and altering how mobile media is involved in understanding the world. This book offers a critical analysis of the effect of usage of locative social media on identity through an engagement with the current literature on spatiality, a novel critical investigation of the temporal effects of LBSN use and a view of identity as influenced by the spatio-temporal effects of interacting with place through LBSN. Drawing on phenomenology, post-phenomenology and critical theory on social and locative media, alongside established sociological frameworks for approaching spatiality and the city, it presents a comprehensive account of the effects of LBSN and locative media use.
Book information
ISBN: | 9783319494715 |
Publisher: | Springer International Publishing |
Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pub date: | 07 Feb 2017 |
DEWEY: | 302.231 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | x, 112 |
Weight: | 454g |
Height: | 210mm |
Width: | 148mm |
Spine width: | 8mm |