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Record Nr.

UNINA9910563075803321

Autore

Venkatraman Shriram

Titolo

Social media in South India [[electronic resource] /] / Shriram Venkatraman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

UCL Press, 2017

London, England : , : UCL Press, , 2007

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Why We Post

Disciplina

302.2310954

Soggetti

Social media - India - Tamil Nadu

Online social networks - India - Tamil Nadu

Internet - Social aspects - India - Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu (India) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Published under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of figures --List of tables --1. Panchagrami and its complexities --2. The social media landscape: people, their perception and presence on social media --3. Visual posting: continuing visual spaces --4. Relationships: kinship on social media --5. Bringing home to work: the role of social media in blurring work-non-work boundaries --6. The wider world: social media and education in a knowledge economy --7. Conclusion: social media and its continuing complexities --Notes --References --Index.

Sommario/riassunto

One of the first ethnographic studies to explore use of social media in the everyday lives of people in Tamil Nadu, Social Media in South India provides an understanding of this subject in a region experiencing rapid transformation. The influx of IT companies over the past decade into what was once a space dominated by agriculture has resulted in a complex juxtaposition between an evolving knowledge economy and the traditions of rural life. While certain class tensions have emerged in response to this juxtaposition, a study of social media in the region suggests that similarities have also transpired, observed most clearly in the blurring of boundaries between work and life for both the old



residents and the new.