Social Media in Southeast Turkey / / Elisabetta Costa.

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 Cost...

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Place / Publishing House:London, United Kingdom : : UCL Press,, 2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 194 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Welcome to Mardin
  • 2. The social media landscape : individuals and groups in the local media ecology
  • 3. Visual posting : showing off and shifting boundaries between private and public
  • 4. Relationships : kinship, family and friends
  • 5. Hidden romance and love
  • 6. The wider world : politics, the visible and the invisible
  • 7. Conclusion : what kind of social change?.