1. A method of operating a communications device that is configured to display information to a user, comprising: receiving a query including a social parameter, a temporal parameter and a spatial parameter relative to the user that are indicative of a desired visual representation of a set of data objects; determining degrees to which the social, temporal and spatial parameters of the query are related to each of the set of data objects in social, temporal and spatial dimensions, respectively, based in part upon a comparison between temporal and spatial information associated with a given data object with the temporal and spatial parameters, respectively, of the query; and displaying a first visual representation of at least a portion of the set of data objects to the user based on whether the determined degrees of relation in the social dimension, temporal dimension and spatial dimension satisfy respective parameters of the query.