Location-Based Social Media

Space, Time and Identity

Leighton Evans, Michael Saker (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

X, 112 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-49471-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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 has been published in journals including New Media & Society, Media Culture & Society, and First Monday.

1. Introduction.- 2.Space.- 3. Time.- 4. Identity.- 5. Conclusions.-

"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." (Will Payne, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, Vol. 46 (5), 2019)

“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.” (Will Payne, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, Vol. 46 (5), 2019)

Erscheinungsdatum	18.02.2017
Zusatzinfo	X, 112 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Area Studies • digital humanities • Digital technologies • Literature, Cultural and Media Studies • Literature: history and criticism • Location • Locative Social Media • Media Studies • Mobile technologies • Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality • Public Space • Regional studies • Self and Identity • Social interactions • Social Media • Social Theory • Society and culture: general • Spatiality • time and identity
ISBN-10	3-319-49471-6 / 3319494716
ISBN-13	978-3-319-49471-5 / 9783319494715
Zustand	Neuware