Visualising Facebook a comparative perspective
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
UCL Press
2017, 2017©2017
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| Series: | Why we post
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 226 pages |
| ISBN: | 1911307371 9781911307358 1911307355 9781911307365 191130738X 0781911307358 1911307363 |