Visualising Facebook: A Comparative Perspective (Why We Post) - Softcover

Miller, Daniel; Sinanan, Dr Jolynna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911307363 ISBN 13: 9781911307365

Publisher: UCL Press, 2017

Synopsis

This examination of over 20,000 images argues that phenomena such as selfies and memes must be analysed in their local context. It aims to highlight the importance of visual images in patrolling and controlling moral values of populations, and explores the changing role of photography from not only recording but also enhancing an experience.

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About the Authors

Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at UCL. He has specialised in the anthropology of material culture, consumption and now digital anthropology. He recently directed the Why We Post project about the use and consequences of social media. He is author/editor of over 40 books including The Comfort of Things, A Theory of Shopping, Stuff, Tales from Facebook and his most recent book about hospice patients, The Comfort of People.

Jolynna Sinanan is Vice Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow at RMIT University, Melbourne. From 2011-2014, she was Research Fellow in Anthropology at UCL. She is co-author How the World Changed Social Media (with eight others) and Webcam. Her areas of research are digital ethnography, new media, migration and gender in Trinidad, Australia, and Singapore.

Edition details

• Publisher: UCL Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1911307363
• ISBN 13: 9781911307365
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236