Social Media in Southeast Italy
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Language
English
ISBN
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Front-Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Introduction to the series Why We Post
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of figures
1 Introduction: Grano, an average
place in southeast Italy
The setting
The rhythms of Grano
Social and economic background
The current life of Grano
Family life and relationships
Media ecology in Grano
Why Grano?
2 The social media landscape
The youngest people on social media
The world of adults
Constants and variations in social media use
The rhythms of social media
Refusing Facebook
Good and bad Facebook
From Grano to Italian society in general
The ages of social media
3 Visual postings: looking for ‘the good’
Sharing the meme
The majesty of nature
Personal photos
Single and group photos
Cute pets and delicious food
Creativity
Looking for something special
Political postings
Discussion
4 Social media and social relationships:
setting layers of intimacy
The normative relationship
What is privacy?
Unfit until married
Love through messages
The single mother
Setting layers of intimacy
Looking to display the right social position
5 The imposition of beauty
Where do all these ideas come from?
Physical beauty live
Style and mass consumption
The everyday beauty of married women
What of all this actually goes on social media?
What about men’s beauty?
Inner beauty – eloquent speech
Absolute beauty – landscape
The ideal of beauty
Crafting beauty
6 The wider world: ideals of work
and ideals of education
What kind of work is shown on Facebook?
Local businesses, or why social media turn
entrepreneurs into teenagers
Liberal work needs online presence
Subtle reflection of work on Facebook
The ideal of education and inequality
Separate educational paths
Social inequality online
The relative success of the highly educated
Do work and education look in the same direction?
The role of social media
7 Conclusion
How individualistic is social media?
How do we know if a revolution is going on?
Cohesion through social differentiation
Notes
References
Index
Back-Cover
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