Abstract
LBSNs are often conceptualised as applications that one can use to explore locations and mark one’s movements through the check-in function. Importantly, these applications also carry a ‘recursive’ function, where a historical snapshot of previous check-ins are presented back to users. This offers an opportunity to review one’s own check-in history, much like the popular application Timehop does for social networking sites (and indeed for LBSN if sufficiently configured). This chapter considers why some LBSN users elect to both archive and explore their locations. In using LBSN in this way, users are employing applications as ‘mediated memory objects’ (van Dijck, The body within, Amsterdam, Brill; 2009). Here, we explore the different ways users interact with their stored spatial past. In order to conceptualise this behaviour with temporality, we engage closely with phenomenological theory on the importance of engagement with technology and technicity as a shaping force on the subjective experience of time. Most importantly, we argue that LBSNs are significantly different from older memory-related practices, and exemplify why this is important in terms of the understandings of space and place for users that employ LBSN to record and review their movements over time.
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Evans, L., Saker, M. (2017). Time. In: Location-Based Social Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49472-2_3
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