[ecrea] New Open Access Book: Social Media in Trinidad

UCL Press is delighted to announce a brand new open access book that may 
be of interest to list subscribers: Social Media in Trinidad. This book 
is the final book in the influential open access Why We Post series, and 
can be downloaded free from https://goo.gl/xWjsZw.

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Social Media in Trinidad

Jolynna Sinanan

Free download available from https://goo.gl/xWjsZw

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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.
Free download https://goo.gl/xWjsZw

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The Why We Post series

With 320,000 downloads to date, the Why We Post series discovers the 
findings of  nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in a 
diverse range of communities to try to understand both why we post and 
the consequences of social media on our lives. For more details, visit 
ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/why-we-post

Download the series free:

•	How the World Changed Social Media: https://goo.gl/FR59RG
•	Social Media in an English Village: https://goo.gl/CfnW3X
•	Social Media in Southeast Turkey: https://goo.gl/WZT2to
•	Social Media in Northern Chile: https://goo.gl/aPn9n2
•	Social Media in Industrial China: https://goo.gl/jZZ9KQ
•	Social Media in Rural China: https://goo.gl/Mi7qmT
•	Social Media in Southeast Italy: https://goo.gl/4vSAEh
•	Visualising Facebook: https://goo.gl/UVwnE6
•	Social Media in South India: https://goo.gl/4aW5z9
•	Social Media in Emergent Brazil: https://goo.gl/QUjz1m
•	Social Media in Trinidad: https://goo.gl/J51Ms6

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