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Location-Based Status Updates and Camera Phone Apps in Social Networks

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Synonyms

Geomedia; Geotagging; GPS; Locative media

Glossary

Apps:

Mobile phone applications

Geotagging:

Using a location-based service to associate geographic location with other kinds of data such as a photograph or text message

GPS (Global Positioning System):

Technologies that calculate the position of a ground-based device through satellite communication

LBS (Location-Based Service):

Applications deploy the position of a device and its user, in the provision of a value-added service

LBSN (Location-Based Social Networking Applications):

Examples include Facebook Home

SMS (Short Messaging System):

The technical term for mobile phone texting that is characterized by a word limit of 160 English characters

Definition

Replacing the navigation of place from paper to digital maps such as Google Maps has transformed how we experience and conceptualize online and offline relationships across corporate, governmental, familial, and personal realms.

Increasingly, location-based services (LBSs)...

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  1. School of Media & Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Larissa Hjorth

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Reda Alhajj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Jon Rokne

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Hjorth, L. (2014). Location-Based Status Updates and Camera Phone Apps in Social Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_201

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