TY - JOUR
T1 - Locating Identities in Time
T2 - An Examination of the Formation and Impact of Temporality on Presentations of the Self through Location-Based Social Networks
AU - Papangelis, Konstantinos
AU - Lykourentzou, Ioanna
AU - Khan, Vassilis-Javed
AU - Chamberlain, Alan
AU - Cao, Ting
AU - Saker, Michael
AU - Lalone, Nicolas
PY - 2021/10/8
Y1 - 2021/10/8
N2 - Studies of identity and location-based social networks (LBSN) have tended to focus on the performative aspects associated with marking one's location. Yet these studies often present this practice as being an a priori aspect of locative media. What is missing from this research is a more granular understanding of how this process develops over time. Accordingly, we focus on the first 6 weeks of 42 users beginning to use an LBSN we designed and named GeoMoments . Through our analysis of our users' activities, we contribute to understanding identity and LBSN in two distinct ways. First, we show how LBSN users develop and perform self-identity over time. Second, we highlight the extent these temporal processes reshape the behaviors of users. Overall, our results illustrate that although a performative use of GeoMoments does evolve, this development does not occur in a vacuum. Rather, it occurs within the dynamic context of everyday life, which is prompted, conditioned, and mediated by the way the affordances of GeoMoments digitally organize and archive past locational traces.
AB - Studies of identity and location-based social networks (LBSN) have tended to focus on the performative aspects associated with marking one's location. Yet these studies often present this practice as being an a priori aspect of locative media. What is missing from this research is a more granular understanding of how this process develops over time. Accordingly, we focus on the first 6 weeks of 42 users beginning to use an LBSN we designed and named GeoMoments . Through our analysis of our users' activities, we contribute to understanding identity and LBSN in two distinct ways. First, we show how LBSN users develop and perform self-identity over time. Second, we highlight the extent these temporal processes reshape the behaviors of users. Overall, our results illustrate that although a performative use of GeoMoments does evolve, this development does not occur in a vacuum. Rather, it occurs within the dynamic context of everyday life, which is prompted, conditioned, and mediated by the way the affordances of GeoMoments digitally organize and archive past locational traces.
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/a90e192e-52a1-367b-b0cd-7bbcf692ad00/
U2 - 10.1145/3473043
DO - 10.1145/3473043
M3 - Article
VL - 4
SP - 1
EP - 23
JO - ACM Transactions on Social Computing
JF - ACM Transactions on Social Computing
IS - 3
M1 - 10
ER -