Location-Based Social Media: Space, Time and Identity

✍ Scribed by Leighton Evans, Michael Saker (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 119
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book looks 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Space....Pages 13-37
Time....Pages 39-62
Identity....Pages 63-86
Conclusions....Pages 87-98
Back Matter....Pages 99-112

✦ Subjects

Social Media;Self and Identity;Social Theory;Area Studies;Digital Humanities