Social Media in Southeast Turkey
：Love, Kinship and Politics
( 1 )
Publication subTitle ：Love, Kinship and Politics
Publication series ：1
Author： Costa Dr Elisabetta
Publisher： UCL Press
Publication year： 2016
E-ISBN: 9781910634554
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781910634523
Subject： C91 Sociology;C912.4 cultural anthropology, social anthropology
Keyword： 社会学
Language： ENG
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Description
This book presents an ethnographic study of social media in Mardin, a medium-sized town located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. 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 and Costa reveals new worlds of intimacy, love and romance.