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    Visualising Facebook

    A Comparative Perspective

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    Author(s)
    Miller, Daniel
    Sinanan, Jolynna
    Collection
    European Research Council (ERC); EU collection
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    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.
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31728
    Keywords
    facebook; social media; england; anthropology; trinidad; El Mirador; Photography; Selfie
    DOI
    10.14324/111.9781911307402
    ISBN
    9781911307358, 9781911307365, 9781911307396, 9781911307389, 9781911307372, 9781911307402
    OCN
    978549278
    Publisher
    UCL Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.uclpress.co.uk/
    Publication date and place
    2017
    Grantor
    • FP7 Ideas: European Research Council - 295486 - SOCNET - FP7 Research grant informationFind all documents
    Series
    Why We Post,
    Classification
    Media studies
    Sociology and anthropology
    Sociology
    Anthropology
    Pages
    236
    Public remark
    Relevant Wikipedia pages: El Mirador - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mirador; Facebook - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook; Photography - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography; Selfie - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfie; Social media - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media; Trinidad - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad; Trinidad and Tobago - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_and_Tobago
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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