Placemaking through mobile social media platform Snapchat

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21690102
AutoresRowan Wilken (0000-0002-3022-0675, RMIT University, autor correspondente), Laud Humphreys (0000-0002-5005-0394, Cornell University), Lee Humphreys (Cornell University)
Ano2021
Volume27
Fascículo3
Páginas579-593
Data de publicação2021-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoConvergence The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1354-8565 • E-ISSN: 1748-7382
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1354856521989518
OpenAlexW3129683826
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas20
Referências citadas46

In this article, we examine the particular ways that place is configured in and through mobile social media platform Snapchat, and how Snapchat is designed and conceptualized in such a way as to encourage digital placemaking. The position we take in this article is that place is not a thing that is merely recorded through this platform. Rather, place is something that is continually enacted, negotiated and renegotiated across multiple levels of media engagement. In developing this position, we first review the previous research on Snapchat that relates to placemaking. Then, we examine placemaking through two primary lens: Snapchat’s design and Snapchat’s business model. Our argument is that close examination of the place-based materiality and meaning of the Snapchat service for itself and for its clients reveals the interconnected construction and commodification of place through this service

Advertising · Aesthetics · Art · Business · Commodification · Epistemology · Media studies · Placemaking · Social media · Sociology · Visual arts · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis · Sharing Economy and Platforms · Spatial and Cultural Studies · Architecture