TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,Daniel
AU  - Sinanan,Jolynna
TI  - Visualising Facebook: A Comparative Perspective
T2  - Why We Post
SN  - 111.9781911307402
PY  - 2017///
PB  - UCL Press
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Media studies
KW  - Sociology & anthropology
KW  - Sociology
KW  - anthropology
KW  - El Mirador
KW  - england
KW  - facebook
KW  - Photography
KW  - Selfie
KW  - social media
KW  - trinidad
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31728
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/33e630d2-8e81-49a1-915f-f5cb0e755506/625482.pdf
ER  -