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***We apologise for any cross-posting**** UCL Press is delighted to announce a brand new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Social Media in Trinidad. This book is the final book in the influential open access Why We Post series, and can be downloaded free from https://goo.gl/xWjsZw. ********************************* Social Media in Trinidad Jolynna Sinanan Free download available from https://goo.gl/xWjsZw ********************************* Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic research in one of the most under-developed regions in the Caribbean island of Trinidad, this book describes the uses and consequences of social media for its residents. Jolynna Sinanan argues that this semi-urban town is a place in-between: somewhere city dwellers look down on and villagers look up to. The complex identity of the town is expressed through uses of social media, with significant results for understanding social media more generally. Not elevating oneself above others is one of the core values of the town, and social media becomes a tool for social visibility; that is, the process of how social norms come to be and how they are negotiated. Carnival logic and high-impact visuality is pervasive in uses of social media, even if Carnival is not embraced by all Trinidadians in the town and results in presenting oneself and association with different groups in varying ways. The study also has surprising results in how residents are explicitly non-activist and align themselves with everyday values of maintaining good relationships in a small town, rather than espousing more worldly or cosmopolitan values. Free download https://goo.gl/xWjsZw ********************************* The Why We Post series With 320,000 downloads to date, the Why We Post series discovers the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in a diverse range of communities to try to understand both why we post and the consequences of social media on our lives. For more details, visit ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press/why-we-post Download the series free: • How the World Changed Social Media: https://goo.gl/FR59RG • Social Media in an English Village: https://goo.gl/CfnW3X • Social Media in Southeast Turkey: https://goo.gl/WZT2to • Social Media in Northern Chile: https://goo.gl/aPn9n2 • Social Media in Industrial China: https://goo.gl/jZZ9KQ • Social Media in Rural China: https://goo.gl/Mi7qmT • Social Media in Southeast Italy: https://goo.gl/4vSAEh • Visualising Facebook: https://goo.gl/UVwnE6 • Social Media in South India: https://goo.gl/4aW5z9 • Social Media in Emergent Brazil: https://goo.gl/QUjz1m • Social Media in Trinidad: https://goo.gl/J51Ms6 ********************************* ucl.ac.uk/ucl-press | @uclpress -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------