Rahul Advani
Biographic Data
| ID | 233846 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rahul Advani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rahul |
| FAMILY NAME | Advani |
| SIGNATURE | ADVANI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-9494-9584 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Brothers, friends, and enemies
Anthropological studies of the internet have traced the emergence of new forms of intimacy in various arenas of life, including friendship. Drawing upon an ethnography of Facebook and its use among young lower-middle-class men in Pune, Maharashtra, western India, the article investigates the discourse of friendship young men deploy on the platform. Although moulded in the image of their intimate friendships, their interactions with one another on…
The selfie speaks a thousand words
While the selfie has come to symbolize notions of selfhood in the age of social media, the photograph that has become a visual trope across the Facebook accounts of lower-middle-class young men in the western Indian city of Pune offers a different reading of online selfhood. In this article, I discuss the creation of a localized selfie-the "professional selfie"-in which young men stage their masculinity by engaging in a mimetic economy of exchang…
Maps, movements and mobilities
This article examines the political significance of Facebook’s check-in feature as used by lower-middle class young men in the western Indian city of Pune. Drawing on the literature on urban transformation and building on the local notion of timepass, I argue that young men produce new spatial configurations of the city on Facebook. In doing so, they make legible their own narrative of what it means to be young in the city as a counterpoise to bo…
Brothers, friends, and enemies
Anthropological studies of the internet have traced the emergence of new forms of intimacy in various arenas of life, including friendship. Drawing upon an ethnography of Facebook and its use among young lower-middle-class men in Pune, Maharashtra, western India, the article investigates the discourse of friendship young men deploy on the platform. Although moulded in the image of their intimate friendships, their interactions with one another on…
Maps, movements and mobilities
This article examines the political significance of Facebook’s check-in feature as used by lower-middle class young men in the western Indian city of Pune. Drawing on the literature on urban transformation and building on the local notion of timepass, I argue that young men produce new spatial configurations of the city on Facebook. In doing so, they make legible their own narrative of what it means to be young in the city as a counterpoise to bo…
Maps, movements and mobilities
This article examines the political significance of Facebook’s check-in feature as used by lower-middle class young men in the western Indian city of Pune. Drawing on the literature on urban transformation and building on the local notion of timepass, I argue that young men produce new spatial configurations of the city on Facebook. In doing so, they make legible their own narrative of what it means to be young in the city as a counterpoise to bo…
The selfie speaks a thousand words
While the selfie has come to symbolize notions of selfhood in the age of social media, the photograph that has become a visual trope across the Facebook accounts of lower-middle-class young men in the western Indian city of Pune offers a different reading of online selfhood. In this article, I discuss the creation of a localized selfie-the "professional selfie"-in which young men stage their masculinity by engaging in a mimetic economy of exchang…
Brothers, friends, and enemies
Anthropological studies of the internet have traced the emergence of new forms of intimacy in various arenas of life, including friendship. Drawing upon an ethnography of Facebook and its use among young lower-middle-class men in Pune, Maharashtra, western India, the article investigates the discourse of friendship young men deploy on the platform. Although moulded in the image of their intimate friendships, their interactions with one another on…
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