ABSTRACT
The production of social space, as exemplified in locative social media, is founded on the sensory-inscription of reciprocity between individuals acknowledging each other in the network as well as reciprocity between participants and interfaces. Social media have drawn top traffic on the internet globally since the early 2000s. The emergence of location-based social networks illuminates some important notions about this mode of social media that distinguishes it from previous online instantiations. Locative social media put the movement that enacts the digital space into physical practice. The reciprocity between people as they acknowledge each other across social networks is integral for the creation of embodied space in locative media. The inclusion of site-specificity into these social networks reasserts geographic nearness to the notion of proxemic intimacy. Since a sense of intimacy has been produced in online social media, the move to locative social media transforms the metaphor of closeness into a geographical actualization.
