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dc.contributor.advisorWarf, Barney
dc.contributor.authorFekete, Emily
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-22T22:21:26Z
dc.date.available2015-10-22T22:21:26Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-31
dc.date.submitted2015
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/ku:13877
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/18733
dc.description.abstractThe study of cyberspace in geography is not new; however the nature of digital spaces is changing with the development of mobile technology, social media, and location-based media platforms. Much of the content found online is now user-generated and embedded with geographic coordinate information in what is termed the geoweb. While the geoweb provides extensive databases of digital information, it also represents a pivotal shift in the way that digital space is studied by geographers. Online spaces, and especially those spaces created by location-based social media platforms, represent a hybrid space that meshes the physical information of the offline world with the digital information of the online. As a hybrid space, the internet has the power to shape offline places and spaces as well as the individual decisions people make within those locations. Physical spaces as well shape online space through the creation of these forms of location-based social media by recognizing that people are embodied. This dissertation seeks to employ the hybrid nature of online/offline spaces to look at sites of consumption and economic geography. Using data from the location-based social media platform, Foursquare, this dissertation argues that the nature of consumption is changing. While physical storefronts are a necessity for our lives as physical beings, an online presence on location-based social media platforms is needed for economic growth and success. Those offline areas left out of the online discussion due to the digital divide may continue to fall behind.
dc.format.extent160 pages
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Kansas
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dc.subjectGeography
dc.subjectConsumption
dc.subjectEconomic Geography
dc.subjectGeoweb
dc.subjectHybridity
dc.subjectSocial Media
dc.titleFour$quare: Hybrid Spaces of Economic Activity
dc.typeDissertation
dc.contributor.cmtememberHalegoua, Germaine
dc.contributor.cmtememberDobson, Jerry
dc.contributor.cmtememberSlocum, Terry
dc.contributor.cmtememberZook, Mathew
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineGeography
dc.thesis.degreeLevelPh.D.
dc.rights.accessrightsopenAccess


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