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oapen-20.500.12657-328332023-03-01T10:04:32Z Social Media in Southeast Turkey Costa, Elisabetta turkey social media politics kinship Arabs Facebook Kurds Mardin WhatsApp bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography 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 Costa uses her 15 months of ethnographic research to explain why public-facing social media is more conservative than offline life. Yet, at the same time, social media has opened up unprecedented possibilities for private communications between genders and in relationships among young people – Costa reveals new worlds of intimacy, love and romance. She also discovers that, when viewed from the perspective of people’s everyday lives, political participation on social media looks very different to how it is portrayed in studies of political postings separated from their original complex, and highly socialised, context. 2016-12-31 23:55:55 2019-01-11 13:45:08 2020-04-01T14:20:10Z 2020-04-01T14:20:10Z 2016 book 604152 OCN: 945783749 9781910634523 9781910634530 9781910634554 9781910634561 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32833 eng Why We Post application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 604152.pdf http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/browse-books/social-media-in-southeast-turkey UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781910634547 10.14324/111.9781910634547 df73bf94-b818-494c-a8dd-6775b0573bc2 7292b17b-f01a-4016-94d3-d7fb5ef9fb79 9781910634523 9781910634530 9781910634554 9781910634561 European Research Council (ERC) 206 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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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 Costa uses her 15 months of ethnographic research to explain why public-facing social media is more conservative than offline life. Yet, at the same time, social media has opened up unprecedented possibilities for private communications between genders and in relationships among young people – Costa reveals new worlds of intimacy, love and romance. She also discovers that, when viewed from the perspective of people’s everyday lives, political participation on social media looks very different to how it is portrayed in studies of political postings separated from their original complex, and highly socialised, context.
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