Social Media in Emergent Brazil

2017-10-23 Social Science

Author : Juliano Spyer
Release : 2017-10-23
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Social Media in Emergent Brazil written by Juliano Spyer. This book was released on 2017-10-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the popularisation of the internet, low-income Brazilians have received little government support to help them access it. In response, they have largely self-financed their digital migration. Internet cafés became prosperous businesses in working-class neighbourhoods and rural settlements, and, more recently, families have aspired to buy their own home computer with hire purchase agreements. As low-income Brazilians began to access popular social media sites in the mid-2000s, affluent Brazilians ridiculed their limited technological skills, different tastes and poor schooling, but this did not deter them from expanding their online presence. Young people created profiles for barely literate older relatives and taught them to navigate platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp

Social Media in Emergent Brazil

2017-10-23 Social Science

Author : Juliano Spyer
Release : 2017-10-23
Genre : Social Science
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Social Media in Emergent Brazil

2017 Digital divide

Author : Juliano Spyer
Release : 2017
Genre : Digital divide
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Book Rating : 691/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Social Media in Emergent Brazil written by Juliano Spyer. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on 15 months of ethnographic research, this book aims to understand why low-income Brazilians have invested so much of their time and money in learning about social media. Juliano Spyer explores this question from a number of perspectives, including education, relationships, work and politics. He argues that social media is the way for low-income Brazilians to stay connected to the family and friends they see in person on a regular basis, which suggests that social media serves a crucial function in strengthening traditional social relations.

Social Media in Trinidad

2017-11-21 Social Science

Author : Jolynna Sinanan
Release : 2017-11-21
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Social Media in Trinidad written by Jolynna Sinanan. This book was released on 2017-11-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic research in one of the most under-developed regions in the Caribbean island of Trinidad, this book describes the uses and consequences of social media for its residents. Jolynna Sinanan argues that this semi-urban town is a place in-between: somewhere city dwellers look down on and villagers look up to. The complex identity of the town is expressed through uses of social media, with significant results for understanding social media more generally. Not elevating oneself above others is one of the core values of the town, and social media becomes a tool for social visibility; that is, the process of how social norms come to be and how they are negotiated. Carnival logic and high-impact visuality is pervasive in uses of social media, even if Carnival is not embraced by all Trinidadians in the town and results in presenting oneself and association with different groups in varying ways. The study also has surprising results in how residents are explicitly non-activist and align themselves with everyday values of maintaining good relationships in a small town, rather than espousing more worldly or cosmopolitan values.

How the World Changed Social Media

2016-02-29 Social Science

Author : Daniel Miller
Release : 2016-02-29
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book How the World Changed Social Media written by Daniel Miller. This book was released on 2016-02-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of 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 explores the impact of social media on politics and gender, education and commerce. What is the result of the increased emphasis on visual communication? Are we becoming more individual or more social? Why is public social media so conservative? Why does equality online fail to shift inequality offline? How did memes become the moral police of the internet? Supported by an introduction to the project’s academic framework and theoretical terms that help to account for the findings, the book argues that the only way to appreciate and understand something as intimate and ubiquitous as social media is to be immersed in the lives of the people who post. Only then can we discover how people all around the world have already transformed social media in such unexpected ways and assess the consequences

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