ISSN:
1745-0101
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Mobilities
Publ. der Quelle:
Abingdon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 11, No. 5 (2016), p. 723-743
DDC:
300
Abstract:
This research focuses on representations of mobilities and their role in social networking on Facebook. Based on an ethnographic research design embedded in a grounded theory approach, the study investigates the mobility patterns of one Generation Y network. The analysis of 50 profiles in this network, including texts, photographs, photo albums and check-ins, suggests that Facebook fosters corporeal as well as imaginative mobility, ultimately leading to the emergence of 'liquid identities', i.e. identities modelled on movement. Social media, specifically Facebook, have set in motion complex patterns of competition for network capital and social status based on mobilities.
Note:
Copyright: © 2015 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group 2015
DOI:
10.1080/17450101.2015.1034453
URL:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17450101.2015.1034453
URL:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1846721781
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