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1 online resource (xii, 207 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
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Why we post |
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Why we post.
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Print version record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-203) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Welcome to The Glades -- 2. The social media landscape -- 3. Crafting the look -- 4. Social media and social relationships -- 5. Making social media matter -- 6. The wider world -- 7. How English is social media? |
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"This book is one of a series of 11 titles."--Page v |
| Summary |
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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Social media -- England, South East.
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Information society -- Social aspects -- England, South East.
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Médias sociaux -- Angleterre (Sud-Est)
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Société de l'information -- Aspect social -- Angleterre (Sud-Est)
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Sociology and anthropology.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography.
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Anthropology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Information society -- Social aspects
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Social media
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England -- England, South East
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Miller, Daniel. Social media in an English village. [Place of publication not identified] : UCL Press, 2016 1910634425 (OCoLC)933438309 |
| ISBN |
9781910634448 (electronic bk.) |
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1910634441 (electronic bk.) |
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1910634433 |
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9781910634431 |
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1910634425 |
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9781910634424 |
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0472073028 |
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9780472073023 |
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191063445X |
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9781910634455 |
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1910634468 |
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9781910634462 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
10.14324/111.9781910634431 doi |
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AU@ 000059396744 |
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