Social media in northern Chile : posting the extraordinarily ordinary / Nell Haynes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haynes, Nell, author.

Series:

Why we post.

Why We Post

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social media--Chile.

Social media.

Internet--Social aspects--Chile.

Internet.

Chile--Social life and customes--21st century.

Chile.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 218 pages) : illustrations, maps (colour); digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

UCL Press 2016

London, England: UCL Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

Based on 15 months of ethnographic research in the city of Alto Hospicio in northern Chile, this book describes how the residents use social media, and the consequences of this use in their daily lives. Nell Haynes argues that social media is a place where Alto Hospicio’s residents – or Hospiceños – express their feelings of marginalisation that result from living in city far from the national capital, and with a notoriously low quality of life compared to other urban areas in Chile. In actively distancing themselves from residents in cities such as Santiago, Hospiceños identify as marginalised citizens, and express a new kind of social norm. Yet Haynes finds that by contrasting their own lived experiences with those of people in metropolitan areas, Hospiceños are strengthening their own sense of community and the sense of normativity that shapes their daily lives. This exciting conclusion is illustrated by the range of social media posts about personal relationships, politics and national citizenship, particularly on Facebook.

Contents:

1. Introduction: online and on the margins in Alto Hospicio, Chile

2. The social media landscape: performing citizenship online

3. Visual posting: The aesthetics of Alto Hospicio

4. Relationships: creating authenticity on social media

5. Work and gender: producing normativity and gendered selves

6. The wider world: imagining community in Alto Hospicio

7. Conclusion: the extraordinary ordinariness of Alto Hospicio

Appendix 1. Social media questionnaire.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 November 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on e-publication, viewed on July 10, 2018.

ISBN:

9781910634578

1910634573

9781910634608

1910634603

9781910634615

1910634611

OCLC:

987704012

Publisher Number:

10.14324/111.9781910634592