or how to keep people at just the right distance /
First Statement of Responsibility
Daniel Miller.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
London :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
UCL Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2016.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xii, 207 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations (chiefly color).
SERIES
Series Title
Why we post
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
"This book is one of a series of 11 titles."--Page v.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-203) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
1. Welcome to The Glades -- 2. The social media landscape -- 3. Crafting the look -- 4. Social media and social relationships -- 5. Making social media matter -- 6. The wider world -- 7. How English is social media?
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Daniel Miller spent 18 months undertaking an ethnographic study with the residents of an English village, tracking their use of the different social media platforms. Following his study, he argues that a focus on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram does little to explain what we post on social media. Instead, the key to understanding how people in an English village use social media is to appreciate just how 'English' their usage has become. He introduces the 'Goldilocks Strategy': how villagers use social media to calibrate precise levels of interaction ensuring that each relationship is neither too cold nor too hot, but 'just right'. He explores the consequences of social media for groups ranging from schoolchildren through to the patients of a hospice, and he compares these connections to more traditional forms of association such as the church and the neighbourhood. Above all, Miller finds an extraordinary clash between new social media that bridges the private and the public domains, and an English sensibility that is all about keeping these two domains separate.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address
JSTOR
Stock Number
22573/ctt1gdtg23
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Social media in an English village.
International Standard Book Number
1910634425
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Information society-- Social aspects-- England, South East.