Social Media in an English Village : (Or how to keep people at just the right distance)
Daniel Miller spent 18 months undertaking an ethnographic study with the residents of an English village, tracking their use of the different social media platforms. Following his study, he argues that a focus on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram does little to explain what we post o...
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Social Media in an English Village : (Or how to keep people at just the right distance)