Social Media in Southeast Turkey

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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Costa, Elisabetta, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London, United Kingdom : UCL Press 2016.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009746888506719
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Welcome to Mardin
  • 2. The social media landscape : individuals and groups in the local media ecology
  • 3. Visual posting : showing off and shifting boundaries between private and public
  • 4. Relationships : kinship, family and friends
  • 5. Hidden romance and love
  • 6. The wider world : politics, the visible and the invisible
  • 7. Conclusion : what kind of social change?.