Spyer, J;
(2017)
Social Media in Emergent Brazil.
Why We Post.
UCL Press: London.
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Abstract
Since the birth of the internet, low-income Brazilians have received little government support to help them access it. In response, they have largely self-financed their digital migration. Internet cafés became prosperous businesses in working-class neighbourhoods and rural settlements, and, more recently, families have aspired to buy their own home computer with hire purchase agreements. As low-income Brazilians began to access popular social media sites in the mid-2000s, affluent Brazilians ridiculed their limited technological skills, different tastes and poor schooling, but this did not deter them from expanding their online presence. Young people created profiles for barely literate older relatives and taught them to navigate platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp. Based on 15 months of ethnographic research, this book aims to understand why low-income Brazilians have invested so much of their time and money in learning about social media. Juliano Spyer explores this question from a number of perspectives, including education, relationships, work and politics. He argues that the use of social media reflects contradictory values. Low-income Brazilians embrace social media to display literacy and upward mobility, but the same technology also strengthens traditional networks of support that conflict with individualism..
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Social Media in Emergent Brazil |
| ISBN-13: | 9781787351653 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787351653 |
| Publisher version: | https:// doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787351653 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Juliano Spyer, 2017 Images © Authors, 2017 This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non- commercial Non- derivative 4.0 International license (CC BY- NC- ND 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non- commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Attribution should include the following information: Juliano Spyer, Social Media in Emergent Brazil. London, UCL Press, 2017. https:// doi.org/ 10.14324/ 111.9781787351653 Further details about Creative Commons licenses are available at http:// creativecommons. org/ licenses/ |
| Keywords: | Anthropology, Brazil, Ethnography, Facebook |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10025054 |
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