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Social media in an English village : or how to keep people at just the right distance /
Daniel Miller spent 18 months undertaking an ethnographic study with the residents of an English village, tracking their use of the different social media platforms. Following his study, he argues that a focus on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram does little to explain what we post o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
UCL Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Why we post.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Daniel Miller spent 18 months undertaking an ethnographic study with the residents of an English village, tracking their use of the different social media platforms. Following his study, he argues that a focus on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram does little to explain what we post on social media. Instead, the key to understanding how people in an English village use social media is to appreciate just how 'English' their usage has become. He introduces the 'Goldilocks Strategy': how villagers use social media to calibrate precise levels of interaction ensuring that each relationship is neither too cold nor too hot, but 'just right'. He explores the consequences of social media for groups ranging from schoolchildren through to the patients of a hospice, and he compares these connections to more traditional forms of association such as the church and the neighbourhood. Above all, Miller finds an extraordinary clash between new social media that bridges the private and the public domains, and an English sensibility that is all about keeping these two domains separate. |
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| Notas: | "This book is one of a series of 11 titles."--Page v |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 207 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-203) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781910634448 1910634441 1910634433 9781910634431 1910634425 9781910634424 0472073028 9780472073023 191063445X 9781910634455 1910634468 9781910634462 |