[ecrea] CFP: EASA 2016 P059 - Kinship - taking stock in the light of social media

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Call for papers
EASA 2016: Anthropological legacies and human futures
Milan, Italy
20-23 July 2016
http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2016/index.shtml


Panel Title: Kinship - taking stock in the light of social media

Short Abstract:
The panel discusses the place of kinship in the light of the ways people
create and maintain personal relationships and networks using social media.
It explores kinship in direct juxtaposition with other networks such as
'traditional' friendship and 'online' only friendship.


Long Abstract:
The panel discusses the place of kinship in the light of the ways people
create and maintain personal relationships and networks using social media.
In some places, social media has reinforced traditional social networks
such as families divided by mobility and migration, but it has also allowed
the emergence of new types of social relations, solidarities, friendships
and kin ties. Social media has also presented certain possibilities both to
display and to conceal these relations, and to create social groups of
different sizes. This range of groups means that social media enables what
could be called "scalable sociality".

The panel presents reflections on the current state of kinship in relation
to social media based on ethnographic studies around the world. It draws on
nine long-term ethnographic studies carried out in different small and
medium-sized towns as part of the Why We Post project (
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post), and the increasing number of
ethnographic studies more generally where social media has been encountered
as an important space for families, extended kinship and other
relationships. By focusing upon social media we can assess kinship in
direct juxtaposition with other networks such as 'traditional' friendship
and 'online' only friendship, or the new role of strangers as social media
confidants. In particular, the panel explores family relationships in
contrast to relationships built on choice, such as friendship and romantic
relations. What happens when one's mother 'friends' you, for instance?

Chair: Piero Vereni
Discussant: Claudia Mattalucci

To propose a paper, please follow this link:
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=4042

For further information or if you have any questions please do not hesitate
to email the two panel convenors:
Elisabetta Costa (British Institute at Ankara. (e.costa /at/ ucl.ac.uk))
Razvan Nicolescu (UCL (r.nicolescu /at/ ucl.ac.uk))


Elisabetta Costa,

Postdoctoral Research at the British Institute at Ankara
Honorary Research at UCL

(e.costa /at/ ucl.ac.uk)
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-networking/projects/social-networking-social-science
www.gsmis.org

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