[ecrea] New open access book: Social Media in Southeast Turkey

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of an open access 
book that may be of interest to members of this list: Social Media in 
Southeast Turkey.



Download Free: http://bit.ly/1OLJclY



This title available in both free open access http://bit.ly/1OLJclY and 
print editions (paperback, £15.00, http://bit.ly/1OLJclY | hardback, 
£35.00 http://bit.ly/1OLJclY).



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 Costa uses her 15 months of ethnographic research to explain 
why public-facing social media is more conservative than offline life. 
Yet, at the same time, social media has opened up unprecedented 
possibilities for private communications between genders and in 
relationships among young people - Costa reveals new worlds of intimacy, 
love and romance. She also discovers that, when viewed from the 
perspective of people's everyday lives, political participation on 
social media looks very different to how it is portrayed in studies of 
political postings separated from their original complex, and highly 
socialised, context.



Download a free open access copy: http://bit.ly/1OLJclY



About the Why We Post



Why do we post on social media? Is it true that we are replacing 
face-to-face relationships with on-screen life? Are we becoming more 
narcissistic with the rise of selfies? Does social media create or 
suppress political action, destroy privacy or become the only way to 
sell something? And are these claims equally true for a factory worker 
in China and an IT professional in India?



With these questions in mind, nine anthropologists each spent 15 months 
living in communities in China, Brazil, Turkey, Chile, India, England, 
Italy and Trinidad. They studied not only platforms but the content of 
social media to understand both why we post and the consequences of 
social media on our lives. Their findings indicate that social media is 
more than communication - it is also a place where we now live.



This series explores and compares the results in a collection of 
ground-breaking and accessible ethnographic studies. To find out more, 
visit http://www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post


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