A genealogy of social geomedia: The life, death, and (possible) afterlife of location-based social networks

In the early 2010s, location-based social networks (LBSNs) received significant attention from both public and venture capital. The “LBSN moment” was an important period of mobile geomedia history, this article argues that reverberations moment still shape contemporary landscape. This examines LBSN through a media genealogy approach views as juncture for development location-sharing, which ended up being dominated by large platforms like Facebook Uber. also draws research on technological to push back against narratives inevitability argue specific dynamics moment, particularly double-edged sword hype, closed-off avenues form. ultimately uses interventionist genealogical explore different paths could have been—and be—taken.