Location-Based Social Media

Leighton Evans is Lecturer in Digital Media Cultures at the University of Brighton, UK, and author of Locative Social Media: Place in the Digital Age (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).  Michael Saker is a Senior Lecturer in Broadcasting and Digital Creative Industries at Southampton Solent University, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Web Science Institute at the University of Southampton. His work has been published in journals including New Media & Society, Media Culture & Society, and First Monday.

• 1. Introduction.- 2.Space.- 3. Time.- 4. Identity.- 5. Conclusions.-

“Leighton Evans and Michael Saker provide an overview of the main currents in research on location-based social networks (LBSN), smartphone applications that allow users to broadcast their physical location and associate digital information with real-world places. ... Readers interested in LBSN and locative media will find plenty of thought-provoking material here, very much in line with the authors’ previous research.” (Will Payne, Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, Vol. 46 (5), 2019)