Social Media in Southeast Turkey : Love, Kinship and Politics

Social Media in Southeast Turkey : Love, Kinship and Politics

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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 Cost...

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Main Author: Costa, Elisabetta (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: UCL Press 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social media.
Information society > Social aspects.
Sociology and anthropology.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Anthropology.
Social sciences (General)
Ethnology. Social and cultural anthropology.
Turkey > Mardin.
Electronic books.
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Table of 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?

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