Beschreibung:
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.
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.
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