Location-based social media : space, time and identity

• Main Author: Evans, Leighton ; Saker, Michael
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
• Subjects: Social media; Location-based services > Social aspects; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General; Social media; Psychology > Personality; Language Arts and Disciplines > Library and Information Science > General; The self, ego, identity, personality; Social theory; Regional studies; Literature: history and criticism; Self; Area studies; Social Science > Media Studies; Media studies; 301 EVA 2017
• Online Access: http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/90050
• Institution: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

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.