Evans Locative Social Media

Place in the Digital Age
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-45611-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 175 Seiten, eBook

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evans, L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Leighton Evans received his PhD in the Philosophy of Technology and New Media from Swansea University in 2012. He is currently  a Postdoctoral Researcher on the European Research Council-funded "Programmable City" project at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland.