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Brazil’s internal class struggle over the internet
An ‘instagram-med’ image that has been reposted in an attempt to expose the ‘lack of taste’ of the new middle class “Orkutization”. Such a weird sounding word. Unless you are a middle class Brazilian...
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Facebook and prohibited communication
Photo by gypsy in moda (creative commons) I arrived in my fieldsite in south-east Turkey two weeks ago and I am in the process of settling into the town. As I am really at the early stage of the...
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QQ & WeChat: a threat to marriage in China?
Photo by flowcomm (Creative Commons) Writing in the 1970s, Margery Wolf noted the pressures faced by rural Chinese women when they married. Women would typically leave their home village, where they...
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WhatsApp: A pain in the arse
Image courtesy of Josh Stocco, Creative Commons It is not uncommon for the people of Balduino to discuss sex. Even my least talkative informants enjoyed telling me about their love affairs outside...
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Fieldwork is haunting me, thanks to WhatsApp
When is the end of fieldwork? (Photo:Merlijn Hoek CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) When is it that fieldwork finishes? Thanks to social media, the separation between being in the fieldsite and being in the library is...
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Memes that Brazilians are sharing about the Olympics
One of the stars of the Olympic games in Rio has been the crowd itself. The liveliness of the crowd has attracted the attention of the foreign press (NYTimes, BBC), and particularly of athletes and...
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