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Posts Tagged: lbsn

Leighton Evans – Buying and Selling People and Places: The Political Economy of Mobile Social Media

By Stijn Peeters, March 24, 2013

Leighton Evans, a research associate at Cardiff University with a PhD from Swansea University under his belt, is as a researcher chiefly interested in location-based social media services. His article How to Build a Map for Nothing: Immaterial Labor and Location-Based Social Networking dealing with this topic appeared in the Unlike Us Reader, and at [...]

Culinary tourism isn’t what it used to be. Two months...

We’re commodities, but maybe that’s all right – what do we pay for using FourSquare?

By Stijn Peeters, February 5, 2013

Culinary tourism isn’t what it used to be. Two months ago, I spent a few days in London. Having never been there before, every evening presented a new challenge: where to eat? A decade ago, I might have consulted my Lonely Planet guide (or my Guide Michelin, had I not been a poor student) or [...]

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