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This introductory chapter offers a summary of the history of location-based social media networking (LBSN) and a review of some of the critical literature that has emerged in this area. The chapter draws attention to the historical precedents for recent, popular LBSN such as Foursquare and indicates where key features of historic LBSN have been retained in current services. As well as looking at the history of this media, the chapter begins to explore the ‘death’ of this media. The chapter also provides a detailed exegesis of the rest of the book.
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Evans, L., Saker, M. (2017). Introduction. In: Location-Based Social Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49472-2_1
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