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Location-based services: transformation of the experience of space

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Journal of Location Based Services, Volume: 5, Issue: 3-4, Pages: 242 - 260

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/17489725.2011.637968

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This article argues that location-based services (LBS) like the social network-based LBS Foursquare are playing an active role in the transformation of experience of the world for users. Based on Heidegger's critique of modern technology and view of technology as a modern ontotheology, and usin...

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Published in: Journal of Location Based Services
ISSN: 1748-9725 1748-9733
Published: 2011
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