Format:
1 Online-Ressource (16 Seiten)
ISSN:
0044-2666
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0044-2666
Content:
This article draws on long-term ethnographic research on the uses of social media and their consequences for people’s everyday lives to shed light on how young men’s long-standing concerns over reputation and shame have been rearticulated through the use of social media. In Mardin, a mediumsized city in southeast Turkey, reputation and shame are key concerns in social media usage and affect different domains of people’s everyday lives, such as politics, love and friendships. In this article, reputation is conceived as the value an individual has in other’s people eyes, on social media being granted by displaying the desired qualities and by receiving expressions of social approbation in a context of constant surveillance. This has been extensively described in terms of the logic of honour across different cultures and at different times. Shame is viewed as an emotional experience generated by social practices that openly transgress social norms. Viewing reputation and shame as bound to mediated practices opens up new opportunities to investigate the transformation of long-standing concerns that continue to have great significance in people’s lives in southeast Turkey. It sheds light on processes of continuity and transformation that are entangled with the diffusion of digital communication technologies.
Note:
published first as (erstmalig folgendermaßen erschienen): Elisabetta Costa: “Please ‘Like’ Me: Reconfiguring Reputation and Shame in Southeast Turkey”. In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie / Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology 146.1–2 (2021), Special Issue “Rethinking the Mediterranean”, pages 11–26.
Die Zweitveröffentlichung dieses Artikels unter der Lizenz Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) erfolgte mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Reimer Verlags.
In:
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, Berlin : Reimer, 146,2021,1–2, Seiten 11-26, 0044-2666
Language:
English
URN:
urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/24692-2
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