Social Media in Northern Chile

• Author: Haynes, Nell.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Based on 15 months of ethnographic research in the city of Alto Hospicio in northern Chile, this book describes how the residents use social media, and the consequences of this use in their daily lives. Nell Haynes argues that social media is a place where Alto Hospicio's residents - or Hospiceños - express their feelings of marginalisation that result from living in city far from the national capital, and with a notoriously low quality of life compared to other urban areas in Chile. In actively distancing themselves from residents in cities such as Santiago, Hospiceños identify as marginalise