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August 17, 2025New Media & SocietyOpen Access

Navigating beyond places: The significance of navigation tools in everyday media use

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CLChristine LohmeierLSLisa SchulzeJSJohannes Schöning

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Overview

Mixed-methods analysis reveals navigation tools influence user mobility and raise privacy concerns.

Key Points

  • Navigation tools actively shape spatial experiences and influence decision-making, enhancing user mobility.
  • Findings indicate a key pattern of usage through search, directions, and social interaction with navigation apps.
  • Mixed-methods approach utilized real-time tracking and interviews to analyze user engagement with Google Maps.
  • Concerns over dataveillance highlight tensions between user convenience and privacy in navigation practices.

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Lohmeier et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68a36a360a429f797332e407https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251359632
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