TY - JOUR AU - Saker, Michael AU - Evans, Leighton PY - 2016/01/25 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Locative mobile media and time: Foursquare and technological memory JF - First Monday JA - FM VL - 21 IS - 2 SE - DO - 10.5210/fm.v21i2.6006 UR - https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6006 SP - AB - <p>Foursquare is a location-based social network (LBSN) that can be used to explore locations and mark one’s movements in the form of ‘check-ins’. This paper investigates why some Foursquare users are choosing to record their locational past, and in so doing using it as a ‘mediated memory object’ (Dijck, 2009). The paper explores the different ways users then interact with their preserved spatial pasts, owing to Foursquare’s mode of preservation. A close engagement with phenomenological theory on the importance of engagement with technology and technicity as a shaping force on the experience of time conceptualises the use of Foursquare as a memory object. The functionality of Foursquare is positioned as a key element in how the location-based social network is significantly different from older memory related practices, as well as signalling its importance for the individuals that employ Foursquare in this manner.</p> ER -