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Locative mobile media and time: Foursquare and technological memory
Michael Saker,
Leighton Evans 
First Monday, Volume: 21, Issue: 2
Swansea University Author:
Leighton Evans
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DOI (Published version): 10.5210/fm.v21i2.6006
Abstract
Foursquare is a location-based social network (LBSN) that can be used to explore locations and mark one’s movements in the form of ‘check-ins’. This paper investigates why some Foursquare users are choosing to record their locational past, and in so doing using it as a ‘mediated memory object’ (Dijc...
| Published in: | First Monday |
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| ISSN: | 13960466 |
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2016
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa37681 |
| Abstract: |
Foursquare is a location-based social network (LBSN) that can be used to explore locations and mark one’s movements in the form of ‘check-ins’. This paper investigates why some Foursquare users are choosing to record their locational past, and in so doing using it as a ‘mediated memory object’ (Dijck, 2009). The paper explores the different ways users then interact with their preserved spatial pasts, owing to Foursquare’s mode of preservation. A close engagement with phenomenological theory on the importance of engagement with technology and technicity as a shaping force on the experience of time conceptualises the use of Foursquare as a memory object. The functionality of Foursquare is positioned as a key element in how the location-based social network is significantly different from older memory related practices, as well as signalling its importance for the individuals that employ Foursquare in this manner. |
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| Keywords: |
location-based social networking, Foursquare, time, phenomenology, memory |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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2 |