Locative Social Media offers a critical analysis of the effect of using locative social media on the perceptions and phenomenal experience of lived in spaces and places. It includes a comprehensive overview of the historical development of traditional mapping and global positioning technology to smartphone-based application services that incorporate social networking features as a series of modes of understanding place. Drawing on users accounts of the location-based social network Foursquare, a digital post-phenomenology of place is developed to explain how place is mediated in the digital age. This draws upon both the phenomenology of Martin Heidegger and post-phenomenology to encompass the materiality and computationality of the smartphone. The functioning and surfacing of place by the device and application, along with the orientation of the user, allows for a particular experiencing of place when using locative social media termed attunement, in contrast to an instrumentalist conception of place.Kitchin, R. (1994), Cognitive maps: What are they and why study them? ... Entering a risky territory: Space in the age of digital navigation. ... Retrieved fromhttp://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/TeensandTech.aspx Magellan GPS. ... Mitsubishi Heritage (2010).http://global.mitsubishielectric.com/heritage/ contents/gps/page_1.html. Retrieved June 02, 2010. Moores, S. (2014). Digital Orientations: aWays of the handa and practical knowing in media uses and other manual activities.
Title | : | Locative Social Media |
Author | : | Leighton Evans |
Publisher | : | Palgrave Macmillan - 2015-05-19 |
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