New article by Jordan Frith and Michael Saker published in First Monday

A new article by Jordan Frith and Michael Saker, entitled ‘Understanding Yik Yak: Location-based sociability and the communication of place’, has just been published in First Monday. Yik Yak was a location-based social application that allowed users to anonymously create, read, and respond to posts made within a few miles radius. Frith and Saker report on six months of ethnographic work and interviews performed with 18 Yik Yak users. They argue that one of Yik Yak’s primary functions was to communicate about place and to find new ways to connect abstractly with the local social situation. The data detailed in this article contributes to the growing literature on the spatial and social impacts of locative media.