Locative Social Media

Leighton Evans received his PhD in the Philosophy of Technology and New Media from Swansea University in 2012. He is currently  a Postdoctoral Researcher on the European Research Council-funded "Programmable City" project at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland.

1. Introduction 2. A (Brief) History of Understanding Space and Place 3. The Phenomenology of Place 4. The Mobile Device as a Thing: The Gathering of Place Digitally 5. Sharing Location with Locative Social Media 6. The Social Capital of Locative Social Media 7. Conclusions