The Test of the Country with Facebook: An Ethnographic Study in A Medıterranean Village / Taşranın Facebook İle İmtihanı: Bir Akdeniz Köyünde Etnografik Keşif Çalışması1
Becoming widespread in recent years, social media networks have already become a crucial aspect of everyday life and socialization in rural settings. Among other networks Facebook has the biggest number of users. This is why the use of Facebook in rural areas is an important issue. Rather than ex...
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Cyprus International University
2015-08-01
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| description | Becoming widespread in recent years, social media networks have already
become a crucial aspect of everyday life and socialization in rural settings. Among
other networks Facebook has the biggest number of users. This is why the use of
Facebook in rural areas is an important issue. Rather than examining urban users, this
study focuses on how and why villagers/ country people, who have narrower social
networks and are based more on community relationships, use their facebook account.
It also explores what kind of sociabilities they want to build through facebook use.
Nine in-depth interviews were conducted for the study. Semi-structured question
forms were used during the interviews and also audience ethnography was used as
a method. Main questions were: Which contents are shared? Which contents are
liked most? Who are accepted as friends? Do contents shared in Facebook become subjects of daily conversations? Do Facebook relations with different individuals
and groups cause any real divides or problems? Besides entertainment, is Facebook
used for exchange of experience for solving daily problems? The study shows that in
the village Facebook is used as “a blog of everyday life”, “an idle away time tool for
alikes”, and “a medium for having some nice time”. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-cf044b35560844168d211c5178cfee3f2022-12-22T02:43:21ZengCyprus International UniversityFolklor/Edebiyat1300-74911300-74912015-08-01218399123The Test of the Country with Facebook: An Ethnographic Study in A Medıterranean Village / Taşranın Facebook İle İmtihanı: Bir Akdeniz Köyünde Etnografik Keşif Çalışması1Tezcan Durna20Nehir Durna312 Ankara Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi’nde öğretim üyesidir. 3 Gazi Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi’nde araştırma görevlisidir. Becoming widespread in recent years, social media networks have already become a crucial aspect of everyday life and socialization in rural settings. Among other networks Facebook has the biggest number of users. This is why the use of Facebook in rural areas is an important issue. Rather than examining urban users, this study focuses on how and why villagers/ country people, who have narrower social networks and are based more on community relationships, use their facebook account. It also explores what kind of sociabilities they want to build through facebook use. Nine in-depth interviews were conducted for the study. Semi-structured question forms were used during the interviews and also audience ethnography was used as a method. Main questions were: Which contents are shared? Which contents are liked most? Who are accepted as friends? Do contents shared in Facebook become subjects of daily conversations? Do Facebook relations with different individuals and groups cause any real divides or problems? Besides entertainment, is Facebook used for exchange of experience for solving daily problems? The study shows that in the village Facebook is used as “a blog of everyday life”, “an idle away time tool for alikes”, and “a medium for having some nice time”.https://www.folkloredebiyat.org/Makaleler/533200544_fe-83-5.pdfNew media; Facebookthe countryvillagecommunitysocialization |
| spellingShingle | Tezcan Durna2 Nehir Durna3 The Test of the Country with Facebook: An Ethnographic Study in A Medıterranean Village / Taşranın Facebook İle İmtihanı: Bir Akdeniz Köyünde Etnografik Keşif Çalışması1 Folklor/Edebiyat New media; Facebook the country village community socialization |
| title | The Test of the Country with Facebook: An Ethnographic Study in A Medıterranean Village / Taşranın Facebook İle İmtihanı: Bir Akdeniz Köyünde Etnografik Keşif Çalışması1 |
| title_full | The Test of the Country with Facebook: An Ethnographic Study in A Medıterranean Village / Taşranın Facebook İle İmtihanı: Bir Akdeniz Köyünde Etnografik Keşif Çalışması1 |
| title_fullStr | The Test of the Country with Facebook: An Ethnographic Study in A Medıterranean Village / Taşranın Facebook İle İmtihanı: Bir Akdeniz Köyünde Etnografik Keşif Çalışması1 |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Test of the Country with Facebook: An Ethnographic Study in A Medıterranean Village / Taşranın Facebook İle İmtihanı: Bir Akdeniz Köyünde Etnografik Keşif Çalışması1 |
| title_short | The Test of the Country with Facebook: An Ethnographic Study in A Medıterranean Village / Taşranın Facebook İle İmtihanı: Bir Akdeniz Köyünde Etnografik Keşif Çalışması1 |
| title_sort | test of the country with facebook an ethnographic study in a mediterranean village tasranin facebook ile imtihani bir akdeniz koyunde etnografik kesif calismasi1 |
| topic | New media; Facebook the country village community socialization |
| url | https://www.folkloredebiyat.org/Makaleler/533200544_fe-83-5.pdf |
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