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oapen-20.500.12657-317282023-03-01T10:48:05Z Visualising Facebook Miller, Daniel Sinanan, Jolynna facebook social media england anthropology trinidad El Mirador Photography Selfie bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology Since the growth of social media, human communication has become much more visual. This book presents a scholarly analysis of the images people post on a regular basis to Facebook. By including hundreds of examples, readers can see for themselves the differences between postings from a village north of London, and those from a small town in Trinidad. Why do women respond so differently to becoming a mother in England from the way they do in Trinidad? How are values such as carnival and suburbia expressed visually? Based on an examination of over 20,000 images, the authors argue that phenomena such as selfies and memes must be analysed in their local context. The book aims to highlight the importance of visual images today in patrolling and controlling the moral values of populations, and explores the changing role of photography from that of recording and representation, to that of communication, where an image not only documents an experience but also enhances it, making the moment itself more exciting. 2017-03-13 23:55 2019-01-11 13:45:08 2020-04-01T13:47:30Z 2020-04-01T13:47:30Z 2017 book 625482 OCN: 978549278 9781911307358 9781911307365 9781911307396 9781911307389 9781911307372 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31728 eng Why We Post application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 625482.pdf https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/visualising-facebook UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781911307402 10.14324/111.9781911307402 df73bf94-b818-494c-a8dd-6775b0573bc2 7292b17b-f01a-4016-94d3-d7fb5ef9fb79 9781911307358 9781911307365 9781911307396 9781911307389 9781911307372 European Research Council (ERC) 236 295486 FP7 FP7 Ideas: European Research Council FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific Programme: "Ideas" Implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Activities (2007 to 2013) open access
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Since the growth of social media, human communication has become much more visual. This book presents a scholarly analysis of the images people post on a regular basis to Facebook. By including hundreds of examples, readers can see for themselves the differences between postings from a village north of London, and those from a small town in Trinidad. Why do women respond so differently to becoming a mother in England from the way they do in Trinidad? How are values such as carnival and suburbia expressed visually? Based on an examination of over 20,000 images, the authors argue that phenomena such as selfies and memes must be analysed in their local context. The book aims to highlight the importance of visual images today in patrolling and controlling the moral values of populations, and explores the changing role of photography from that of recording and representation, to that of communication, where an image not only documents an experience but also enhances it, making the moment itself more exciting.
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