Narrating Stance, Morality, and Political Identity
Building a Movement on Facebook
- 248 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book offers unique insights into the use of Facebook after the 2016 US presidential election, interrogating how users in private groups draw on individual experiences in movement building and identity construction while also critically reflecting on ethnographic practices around social media.
The volume draws on the author's own involvement in a specific Facebook group focused around activism and community organizing in Texas following the 2016 US presidential election. Chapters draw on the frameworks of "small stories" and "stance" to unpack the ways in which group members use parts of their individual stories to signal beliefs to others, present themselves in relation to the group, and signal virtues of moral authority on various pressing political issues. Building on these analyses, Zentz goes on to address ways in which the scales of politics are being navigated and modified at the grassroots level in our highly networked world. This book contributes to ongoing conversations about the realities of internet use within linguistic anthropology and new media studies, and how researchers might seek to account for social media use and access to this data as these technologies develop further.
This book is key reading for students and scholars in linguistic anthropology, media studies, and activism and social movement studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Images
- List of Tables
- Preface: Some Context
- Acknowledgments
- Timeline
- Abbreviations
- 1. Biographies, Stance, and Moral Politics: Analyzing Stories in an Era of Destabilized Politics and Communication
- 2. Challenging Ethnography: The Ethics and Relationships of Online Research
- 3. “Our newfound optimism in democracy”: Small Stories of Moral Inspiration, Epistemic Authority, and Affective Appeal
- 4. “You are a beautiful, talented, brilliant, powerful musk ox”: Alignment, Collaboration, and Bonding in the Formation of a Group Identity Online
- 5. “25 doors please”: Keeping Boots on the Ground and Fingers on the Phone in a Networked Nation
- 6. Biographies, Stance, and Moral Politics: Saving the Nation in the Social Media Age
- Epilogue
- Appendix A: Data Coding and Collection Information and Examples
- Appendix B: Presentation of Data
- Index