Social Media in Trinidad: Values and Visibility, by Jolynna Sinanan

摘要

Social media has received a fair amount of attention as an academic subjectin recent years, but most research explores it from the viewpoint of individuals.Anthropology takes a more encompassing approach, looking at communities.This is what Jolynna Sinanan demonstrates in Social Media in Trinidad:Values and Visibility. The book is part of the Why We Post series, developedwith the intent of providing an unprecedented comparative study of the useof social media around the world. Apart from individual monographs relatingto nine specific countries, this project also includes a broader comparativework in How the World Changed Social Media (2016), as well as a more narrowlyfocused book, Visualising Facebook: A Comparative Perspective (2017), coauthoredby Sinanan and Daniel Miller and centering on the project’s Trinidadianand English field sites. While Sinanan’s work stands on its own merits, thismeans that for a more complete and comprehensive understanding of her findingsone should also read the two comparative publications of the Why We Postproject.