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E-book Social Media in Rural China : Social Networks and Moral Frameworks

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This book is one of a series of 11 titles. Nine are monographs devoted to specific field sites (including this one) in Brazil, Chile, China, England, India, Italy, Trinidad and Turkey – they will be published in 2016–17. The series also includes a comparative book about all of our findings, published to accompany this title, and a book which contrasts the visu-als that people post on Facebook in this same English field site with those on our Trinidadian field site.When we tell people that we have written nine monographs about social media around the world, and that they all have the same chap-ter headings (apart from Chapter 5), they are concerned about potential repetition. However, if you decide to read several of these books (which we very much hope you do), you will see that this device has been help-ful in showing the precise opposite. Each book is as individual and dis-tinct as if it were on an entirely different topic.This is perhaps our single most important finding. Most studies of the internet and social media are based on research methods that assume we can generalise across different groups. We look at tweets in one place and write about ‘Twitter’. We conduct tests about social media and friendship in one population, and then write on this topic as if friendship means the same thing for all populations. By presenting nine books with the same chapter headings, you can judge for yourselves what kinds of generalisations are, or are not, possible.Our intention is not to evaluate social media either positively or negatively. The purpose is educational, providing detailed evidence of what social media has become in each place, and the local consequences, including local evaluations.Each book is based on 15 months of research during which time most of the anthropologists lived, worked and interacted with people, always in the local language. Yet they differ from the dominant tradition of writing social science books. Firstly they do not engage with the aca-demic literatures on social media. It would be highly repetitive to have the same discussions in all nine books. Instead discussions of these liter-atures are to be found in our comparative book, How the World Changed Social Media. Secondly these monographs are not comparative, which again is the primary function of this other volume. Thirdly, given the immense interest in social media from the general public, we have tried to write in an accessible and open style. This means we have adopted a mode more common in historical writing of keeping all citations and the discussion of all wider academic issues to endnotes. If you prefer to read above the line, each text offers a simple narrative about our find-ings. If you want to read a more conventional academic book that relates the material to its academic context, this can be done through engaging with the footnotes.We hope you enjoy the results, and we hope you will also read our comparative book – and perhaps some of the other monographs – in addition to this one.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

006.75451 MCD s

Penerbit

London : UCL Press., 2016

Deskripsi Fisik

236 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781910634691

Klasifikasi

006.75451

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Online Social Network in China

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