Social Media in Trinidad Values and Visibility

• Tác giả: Project Muse, Jolynna Sinanan
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 1787350932
• ISBN-10: 1787350967
• ISBN-13: 978-1787350939
• ISBN-13: 978-1787350946
• ISBN-13: 978-1787350960
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 302.30285 Social interaction within groups
• Thông tin xuất bản: London : UCL Press, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (1 ressource en ligne xiv, 236 pages) : , illustrations, cartes.
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 198059
• Chủ đề: 1. Online social networks--Trinidad and Tobago; 3. Online social networks; 4. Social media--Trinidad and Tobago; 6. Social media

Tóm tắt

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.