The Media and the Messages of Location-Based Services (LBS): Death of Distance or the Revenge of Geography?
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This paper reconceptualizes LBS as new media. By doing so, a synthetic framework based upon Marshall McLuhan’s laws of the media is developed. The media and messages of LBS are discussed through a preliminary tetradic analysis. The paper concludes by arguing that the way to cope with the paradoxes of technological innovations is a major challenge in the information age.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Annals of GIS
دوره 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004