I'm the mayor of my house: Examining why people use foursquare - A social-driven location sharing application

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2409-2418

  Lindqvist, Janne ^a   Cranshaw, Justin ^a   Wiese, Jason ^a   Hong, Jason ^a   Zimmerman, John ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Check in; Foursquare; Location based service; Mobile computing; Privacy; Social computing; Uses and gratifications

Indexed keywords

DATA PRIVACY; LOCATION; MOBILE COMPUTING; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

CHECK-IN; FOURSQUARE; LOCATION SHARING; LOCATION-BASED SERVICES; MOBILE-COMPUTING; PRIVACY; SHARING SYSTEMS; SOCIAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL SERVICE; USES AND GRATIFICATIONS;

LOCATION BASED SERVICES;

EID: 79958162705     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1978942.1979295     Document Type: Conference Paper

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