Locative Media and Sociability:Using Location-Based Social Networks to Coordinate Everyday Life

Foursquare was a mobile social networking application that enabled people to share location with friends in the form of “check-ins.” The visualization of surrounding known social connections as well as unknown others has the potential to impact how people coordinate social encounters and forge new social ties. While many studies have explored mobile phones and sociability, there is a lack of empirical research examining location-based social network’s (LSBNs) from a sociability perspective. Drawing on a dataset of original qualitative research with a range of Foursquare users, the paper examines the application in the context of social coordination and sociability in three ways. First, the paper explores if Foursquare is used to organize certain social encounters, and if so, why. Second, the paper examines the visualization of surrounding social connections and whether this leads to “serendipitous encounters.” Lastly, the paper examines whether the use of Foursquare can produce new social relationships

Social media and social capital: Introduction to the special issue.

Social media, especially social network sites (SNS) such as Facebook have grown rapidly in popularity in the last ten years. [...]peerReviewedpublishedVersio

Pride, but not envy, mediates the effect of system-generated achievement messages on motivation.

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Social networks in higher education management

A social network is a web-based application, a system of open relationships and exponential growth. On a social network, a user invites other users to establish an online connection via the platform. In turn, each user also creates their own group of contacts to create a network of connections (Assimakopoulos et al. 2017; Cheung et al. 2011). In the educational arena, a social network can also be a tool to support management decisions