[ecrea] New Open Access Book: Visualising Facebook (Daniel Miller/Jolynna Sinanan)

UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access 
book that will be of interest to list subscribers: Visualising Facebook 
by Daniel Miller and Jolynna Sinanan. Free download: https://goo.gl/Kp9JuN

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Visualising Facebook
Daniel Miller and Jolynna Sinanan
Download free: https://goo.gl/Kp9JuN

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Since the growth of social media, human communication has become much 
more visual. This book presents a scholarly analysis of the images 
people post on a regular basis to Facebook. By including hundreds of 
examples, readers can see for themselves the differences between 
postings from a village north of London, and those from a small town in 
Trinidad. Why do women respond so differently to becoming a mother in 
England from the way they do in Trinidad? How are values such as 
carnival and suburbia expressed visually?
Based on an examination of over 20,000 images, the authors argue that 
phenomena such as selfies and memes must be analysed in their local 
context. The book aims to highlight the importance of visual images 
today in patrolling and controlling the moral values of populations, and 
explores the changing role of photography from that of recording and 
representation, to that of communication, where an image not only 
documents an experience but also enhances it, making the moment itself 
more exciting.

Download free: https://goo.gl/Kp9JuN

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TOC

Contents
1.
Introduction

2.
The English school pupil

3.
Young people in Trinidad and their continuities

4.
English  adults

5.
Trinidadian  adults

6.
The Englishness of posting

7.
Trinidadian cosmology and values

8.
Ten points of view

9.
Conclusion

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