Communicating Through Location: The Understood Meaning of the Foursquare Check-In

被引:39
作者
Frith, Jordan [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ N Texas, Dept Tech Commun, Denton, TX 76203 USA
关键词
Foursquare; mobile communication; place; coordination; LBSNs; smartphones;
D O I
10.1111/jcc4.12087
中图分类号
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要
Location-based social networks (LBSNs) are mobile applications that allow people to share their physical location with friends through their mobile device. The sharing of location is a relatively new form of computer-mediated communication, and there is a lack of existing research examining the coordination practices of people using social location sharing services. This article reports on qualitative interviews with frequent users of the LBSN Foursquare to show both how LBSNs complicate views of the relative "placelessness" of traditional mobile communication and how the design of Foursquare complicates its utility as a mobile coordination tool.
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