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Location-Based Social Media
Evans, Leighton; Saker, Michael
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Description for Location-Based Social Media
Hardback. Num Pages: 112 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; JFD; JHBA; JMS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 293.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319494715
SKU
V9783319494715
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Ref
99-15
About Evans, Leighton; Saker, Michael
Leighton Evans is Lecturer in Digital Media Cultures at the University of Brighton, UK, and author of Locative Social Media: Place in the Digital Age (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Michael Saker is a Senior Lecturer in Broadcasting and Digital Creative Industries at Southampton Solent University, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton. His work ... Read more
Reviews for Location-Based Social Media
“Leighton Evans and Michael Saker provide an overview of the main currents in research on location-based social networks (LBSN), smartphone applications that allow users to broadcast their physical location and associate digital information with real-world places. ... Readers interested in LBSN and locative media will find plenty of thought-provoking material here, very much in line with the authors’ previous research.” ... Read more