Social Media in Southeast Turkey

Love, Kinship and Politics

Bibliographic Data

ID7528481
AuthorsElisabetta Costa (0000-0002-9697-9342, corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Media in Southeast Turkey (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUCL Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.14324/111.9781910634547
OpenAlexW2600370441
ISBN9781910634547
LanguageEN
Citations received26

This book presents an ethnographic study of social media in Mardin, a medium-sized town located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. The town is inhabited mainly by Sunni Muslim Arabs and Kurds, and has been transformed in recent years by urbanisation, neoliberalism and political events. 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 - Costa reveals new worlds of intimacy, love and romance. She also discovers that, when viewed from the perspective of people's everyday lives, political participation on social media looks very different to how it is portrayed in studies of political postings separated from their original complex, and highly socialised, context

Ethnology · Kinship · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Southeast asia · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Turkey's Politics and Society