Social media in Southeast Turkey : love, kinship and politics / Elisabetta Costa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Costa, Elisabetta (Anthropologist), author.

Series:

Why We Post.

Why We Post

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social media--Turkey--Mardin.

Information society--Social aspects--Turkey--Mardin.

Information society--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (194 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour); digital, PDF file(s).

Distribution:

[The Hague, Netherlands] : OAPEN Foundation, 2016.

Place of Publication:

London, England : UCL Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This book presents an ethnographic study of social media in Mardin, a medium-sized town located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. The town is inhabited mainly by Sunni Muslim Arabs and Kurds, and has been transformed in recent years by urbanisation, neoliberalism and political events. Elisabetta Costa uses her 15 months of ethnographic research to explain why public-facing social media is more conservative than offline life. Yet, at the same time, social media has opened up unprecedented possibilities for private communications between genders and in relationships among young people – Costa reveals new worlds of intimacy, love and romance. She also discovers that, when viewed from the perspective of people’s everyday lives, political participation on social media looks very different to how it is portrayed in studies of political postings separated from their original complex, and highly socialised, context.

Contents:

Introduction : welcome to Mardin

The social media landscape : individuals and groups in the local media ecology

Visual posting : showing off and shifting boundaries between private and public

Relationships : kinship, family and friends

Hidden romance and love

The wider world : politics, the visible and the invisible

Conclusion : what kind of social change?

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 November 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version:

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access