TY - BOOK ID - 31377783 TI - Social Media in Trinidad : values and visibility PY - 2017 SN - 1787350967 1787350959 9781787350960 9781787350939 1787350932 1787350940 1787350983 PB - UCL Press DB - UniCat KW - Online social networks. KW - Social media. KW - User-generated media KW - Communication KW - User-generated content KW - Electronic social networks KW - Social networking Web sites KW - Virtual communities KW - Social media KW - Social networks KW - Sociotechnical systems KW - Web sites KW - Online social networks KW - Trinidad and Tobago. KW - Republic of Trinidad and Tobago KW - República de Trinidad y Tobago KW - Torinidaddo Tobago KW - Torinidādo Tobago KW - Trinidad & Tobago KW - Trinidad ja Tobago KW - Trinidad och Tobago KW - Trinidad-Tobago KW - Ṭrinidad ṿe-Ṭobago KW - Trinidad y Tobago KW - Trinité-et-Tobago KW - טרינידד וטובגו KW - トリニダッド・トバゴ KW - トリニダード・トバゴ KW - Tobago (Colony) KW - Trinidad KW - West Indies (Federation) KW - Communities, Online (Online social networks) KW - Communities, Virtual (Online social networks) KW - Online communities (Online social networks) KW - Society & social sciences KW - Society & culture: general KW - Cultural studies KW - Sociology & anthropology KW - caribbean KW - carnival KW - carnival logic KW - anthropology KW - El Mirador KW - Facebook KW - Instagram KW - Trinidad and Tobago UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:31377783 AB - 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. ER -