Location Based Social Media Space Time and Identity 1st Edition by Leighton 3319494724 9783319494722

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• ISBN 10: 3319494724
• ISBN 13: 9783319494722
• Author: Leighton Evans

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.

Table of contents:

1 Introduction

1.1 The Development of LBSN

1.2 Location-Based Social Media in Our Own Words

2 Space

2.1 Spatiality Isn’t Just Lines on Paper…

2.2 Research on LBSN and Spatiality

2.3 The Importance of Embodiment

2.4 Extraordinary Ordinary Places (and Spaces)

2.5 Different Games and Different Routes

2.6 Bragging, Social Bonds and Social Spaces

2.7 Physical, Digital and Playful Spaces

3 Time

3.1 The Digital Memory Lane

3.2 The Recording of and Replaying of Space and Location

3.3 Auto-Recall: The Recall of Location through LBSN

3.4 The Locational Past and Its Present Potential

3.5 ‘Time Waits for no LBSN…’

4 Identity

4.1 Social Networking Sites: Space, Place and Identity

4.2 ‘I am, where I am’

4.3 The Spatial Self Isn’t Always, well, Spatial

4.4 Local Search and Feeling ‘Local’

4.5 Foursquare and the Spatial Self it Configures

5 Conclusions

5.1 Summary of the Research

5.2 The Role of LBSN in the World

5.3 Zombie Media

5.4 In Closing…

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