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Social media in Southeast Turkey
his 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 co…
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- 9781910634547
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- xi, 194 p.
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- 302.23109561 COS s
Social media in South India
One of the first ethnographic studies to explore use of social media in the everyday lives of people in Tamil Nadu, Social Media in South India provides an understanding of this subject in a region experiencing rapid transformation. The influx of IT companies over the past decade into what was once a space dominated by agriculture has resulted in a complex juxtaposition between an evolving know…
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- 9781911307969
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- 256 p.; 22 cm.
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- Why We Post
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- 302.2310954 VEN s
Searching for sharing: heritage and multimedia in Africa
In a world where new technologies are being developed at a dizzying pace, how can we best approach oral genres that represent heritage? Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores the idea of sharing as a model to construct and disseminate the knowledge of literary heritage with the people who are represented by and in it. Expert contributors interweave sociologica…
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- 9781783743216
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- 158 p.; 23 cm.
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- 302.9 SEA s
Thumb Culture: the meaning of mobile phones for society
Mobile communication has an increasing impact on people's lives and society. Ubiquitous media influence the way users relate to their surroundings, and data services like text and pictures lead to a culture shaped by thumbs. Representing several years of research into the social and cultural effects of mobile phone use, this volume assembles the fascinating approaches and new insights of leadin…
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- 9783899424034
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- 621.38456 GLO t
Archaelogist in print: publishing for the people
Archaeologists in Print is a history of popular publishing in archaeology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a pivotal period of expansion and development in both archaeology and publishing. It examines how British archaeologists produced books and popular periodical articles for a non-scholarly audience, and explores the rise in archaeologists’ public visibility. Notably, it analyses…
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- 9781787352575
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- xii, 295p.: ill.
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- 930.109 THO a
How the world changed social media
How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the results of the research and exploring the impact of social media on politics and gender, education and commerce. What is the result of the…
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- 9781910634493
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- XXIV, 262 p.
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- Why We Post
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- 302.23 HOW h
Unpopular culture: televisual culture
This collection includes eighteen essays that introduce the concept of unpopular culture and explore its critical possibilities and ramifications from a large variety of perspectives. Proposing a third term that operates beyond the dichotomy of high culture and mass culture and yet offers a fresh approach to both, these essays address a multitude of different topics that can all be classified a…
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- 9789089649669
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- 339 p.; 23 cm.
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- 306
Hands on media history: a new methodology in the humanities and social sciences
"Hands on Media History explores the whole range of hands on media history techniques for the first time, offering both practical guides and general perspectives. It covers both analogue and digital media; film, television, video, gaming, photography and recorded sound. Understanding media means understanding the technologies involved. The hands on history approach can open our minds to new per…
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- 9781351247412
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- xvii, 240p.: ill.
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- 302.23 HAN h
The narrative subject : storytelling in the age of the internet
This open access book considers the stories of adolescents and young adults from different regions of the world who use digital media as instruments and stages for storytelling, or who make themselves the subject of storytelling. These narratives discuss interconnectedness, self-staging, and managing boundaries. From the perspective of media and cultural research, they can be read as responses …
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- 9783030511890
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- xv, 269p. : ill.
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- 302.231 SCH n
Technology, design and the arts - opportunities and challenges
This open access book details the relationship between the artist and their created works, using tools such as information technology, computer environments, and interactive devices, for a range of information sources and application domains. This has produced new kinds of created works which can be viewed, explored, and interacted with, either as an installation or via a virtual environment s…
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- 9783030420970
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- xxv, 387p. : ill.
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- 700.105 TEC t
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