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      Locative Media and Sociability: Using Location-Based Social Networks to Coordinate Everyday Life

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      coordination, Foursquare, LBSNs, location-based social networks, locative media, sociability, social media

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          Foursquare was a mobile social networking application that enabled people to share location with friends in the form of “check-ins.” The visualization of surrounding known social connections as well as unknown others has the potential to impact how people coordinate social encounters and forge new social ties. While many studies have explored mobile phones and sociability, there is a lack of empirical research examining location-based social network’s (LSBNs) from a sociability perspective. Drawing on a dataset of original qualitative research with a range of Foursquare users, the paper examines the application in the context of social coordination and sociability in three ways. First, the paper explores if Foursquare is used to organize certain social encounters, and if so, why. Second, the paper examines the visualization of surrounding social connections and whether this leads to “serendipitous encounters.” Lastly, the paper examines whether the use of Foursquare can produce new social relationships.

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                Amps
                Architecture_MPS
                UCL Press
                September 2018
                : 14
                : 1
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                [1]1 City, University of London
                [2]2 University of North Texas
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                10.14324/111.444.amps.2018v14i1.001
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                Sociology,Political science,Political & Social philosophy,Urban studies,Architecture,Communication & Media studies
                sociability,coordination,location-based social networks,Foursquare,LBSNs,locative media,social media

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