The media and the messages of location-based services (LBS): Death of distance or the revenge of geography?

Geographic Information Sciences

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 166-174

  Sui, Daniel Z ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Laws of LBS; Laws of media; Location based services (LBS); Social impacts

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750627983     PISSN: 10824006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10824000409480668     Document Type: Article

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