Locative social media : place in the digital age

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    • Evans, Leighton

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Locative social media : place in the digital age

Leighton Evans

Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 160-173) and index

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Description

This book offers a critical analysis of the effect of usage of locative social media on the perceptions and phenomenal experience of lived in spaces and places. Drawing on users accounts of location-based social networking, a digital post-phenomenology of place is developed to explain how place is mediated in the digital age.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. A (Brief) History of Understanding Space and Place 3. The Phenomenology of Place 4. The Mobile Device as a Thing: The Gathering of Place Digitally 5. Sharing Location with Locative Social Media 6. The Social Capital of Locative Social Media 7. Conclusions

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