Elisabetta Costa
2021
Costa, Elisabetta
Digitizing Desires: Immobile mobility and social media in southeast Turkey Book Chapter
In: pp. 133-144, Routledge, 2021, ISBN: 9781003089872.
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Costa, Elisabetta
Please 'Like Me': Reconfiguring Reputation and Shame in Southeast Turkey Journal Article
In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie (ZfE)(Journal of ethnology), vol. 146, no. 1/2, 2021.
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2020
Costa, Elisabetta; Alinejad, Donya
Experiencing Homeland: Social Media and Transnational Communication among Kurdish Migrants in Northern Italy Journal Article
In: Global Perspectives, vol. 1, no. 1, 2020.
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2019
Costa, Elisabetta
Being at home on social media: Online place-making among the Kurds in Turkey and rural migrants in China Conference
SAGE Publishing, 2019.
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Costa, Elisabetta
Location as conspicuous consumption: the making of modern women in southeast Turkey Book Chapter
In: Routledge, 2019, ISBN: 9781315544823.
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Como o Mundo Mudou as Mídias Sociais Book
UCL Press, 2019, ISBN: 9781787356542.
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Costa, Elisabetta; Miller, Daniel; Haynes, Nell; McDonald, Tom; Nicolescu, Razvan; Sinanan, Jolynna; Spyer, Juliano; Venkatraman, Shriram; Wang, Xinyuan
Come il mondo ha cambiato i social media Book
UCL Press, 2019, ISBN: 9781787355576.
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2018
Costa, Elisabetta; Udupa, Sahana; Budka, Philipp
The Digital Turn: New Directions in Media Anthropology Conference
2018.
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Costa, Elisabetta; Miller, D; Haapio-Kirk, L; Haynes, N; McDonald, T; Nicolescu, R; Sinanan, J; Spyer, J; Venkatraman, S; Wang, XY
Why We Post–a team approach to research dissemination Book Chapter
In: pp. 265-269, 2018, ISBN: 9781787351127.
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Costa, Elisabetta
Affordances-in-practice: An ethnographic critique of social media logic and context collapse Journal Article
In: New Media & Society, 2018.
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2017
Costa, Elisabetta; Miller, Daniel; Haapio-Kirk, Laura; Haynes, Nell; Sinanan, Jolynna; McDonald, Tom; Nicolescu, Razvan; Spyer, Juliano; Venkatraman, Shriram; Wang, Xinyuan
Contemporary Comparative Anthropology–The Why We Post Project Journal Article
In: Ethnos, vol. 84, no. 2, pp. 1-16, 2017.
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Costa, Elisabetta
Media Anthropology Network European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) E-Seminar Series Conference
2017.
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The paper has been written by Nina Grønlykke Mollerup (Independent Researcher, Denmark), who has recently obtained her PhD from Roskilde University, Denmark, whose work focuses on media and social movements and who in the last years has made an invaluable contribution to the list. You can now read the full paper here: http://www. media-anthropology.
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Costa, Elisabetta
Social Media as Practices: an Ethnographic Critique of Affordances and Context Collapse Book Chapter
In: Working Papers for the EASA Media Anthropology Network’s 60Th E-seminar, 2017.
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Drawing on data gathered during ethnographic fieldwork in Mardin, a medium-sized town in southeast Turkey, this paper examines people’s production of different online social spaces. The paper shows that social media users actively appropriate online platforms and change privacy settings in order to keep different social spheres and social groups apart. Social media users actively mould online social environments that largely resemble those existing in the offline world. Keeping different online social contexts divided from one another is the taken for granted way of using social media in Mardin. By contrast, social media scholars have extensively discussed the effects of social media in terms of context collapse (among others see Marvin 2013; Marwick and Boyd 2011; Marwick and Ellison 2012; Vitak 2012; Wesch 2008, 2009). This in turn has been described as a consequence of platform’s architecture and affordances. This paper shows that the theory of context collapse does not account for the uses of social media in Mardin. It demonstrates that the concept of affordance has been largely used to describe “intrinsic” properties of a platform and its architecture, which are instead the results of pattern of usage within Anglo-American contexts. The paper concludes by suggesting the importance of considering social media as an open set of situated practices, rather than architectures provided with unchangeable and intrinsic properties.
Costa, Elisabetta; Miller, Daniel; Sinanan, Jolynna; Spyer, Juliano; Haapio-Kirk, Laura; Haynes, Nell; Nicolescu, Razvan; Venkatraman, Shriram; McDonald, Tom; Wang, Xinyuan
Why we post: anthropology of social media Conference
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Why We Post–Taking Anthropology to The World Journal Article
In: Anthropology News, vol. 57, no. 9-10, pp. 4-5, 2017.
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2016
Costa, Elisabetta; Ferri, Paolo; Cavalli, Nicola; Mangiatordi, Andrea; Mizzella, Stefano; Pozzali, Andrea; Scenini, Francesca
Italian university students and digital technologies: some results from a field research Book Chapter
In: vol. 49, pp. 357-365, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2016, ISBN: 978-3-642-04757-2.
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Why We Post Journal Article
In: Anthropology News, vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 44-47, 2016.
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How the world changed social media Book
UCL press, 2016, ISBN: 9781787356542.
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Costa, Elisabetta
Social media in Southeast Turkey: Love, kinship and politics Book Chapter
In: vol. 3, pp. 210, UCL Press, 2016, ISBN: 9781910634547.
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Costa, Elisabetta
The Morality of Premarital Romances: Social Media, Flirting and Love in Southeast Turkey Journal Article
In: Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 199-215, 2016.
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Introduction: Digital intimacies: Exploring digital media and intimate lives in the Middle East and North Africa Journal Article
In: Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 137-145, 2016.
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2015
Costa, Elisabetta
The Life Informatic: Newsmaking in the Digital Era by Dominic Boyer Ithaca Journal Article
In: American Anthropologist, vol. 117, no. 4, pp. 819-820, 2015.
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The Life Informatic: Newsmaking in the Digital Era by Dominic Boyer Ithaca Journal Article
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Social media e nuovi confini nel sud-est turco Tra pubblico e privato Conference
2015.
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2014
Costa, Elisabetta
Book review: Facebook Democracy: The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life Journal Article
In: Cultural Sociology, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 122-123, 2014.
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2013
Costa, Elisabetta
Introduzione all'edizione italiana Book Chapter
In: Ledizioni, 2013.
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abstract = {Introduzione all'edizione italiana — the University of Groningen research portal Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content the University of Groningen research portal Logo Help & FAQ English Nederlands Home Profiles Research Units Research output Projects Datasets Prizes Activities Press / Media Search by expertise, name or affiliation Introduzione all'edizione italiana Elisabetta Costa Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript › Academic Overview Original language Italian Title of host publication Per un'antropologia delle cose Place of Publication Milano Publisher Ledizioni ISBN (Print) 9788867051243 Publication status Published - 2013 Externally published Yes Access to Document http://www.ledizioni.it/prodotto/daniel-miller-unantroplogia-delle-cose/ Cite this APA Author BIBTEX Harvard Standard RIS Vancouver Costa, E. (2013).},
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Introduzione all'edizione italiana — the University of Groningen research portal Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content the University of Groningen research portal Logo Help & FAQ English Nederlands Home Profiles Research Units Research output Projects Datasets Prizes Activities Press / Media Search by expertise, name or affiliation Introduzione all'edizione italiana Elisabetta Costa Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript › Academic Overview Original language Italian Title of host publication Per un'antropologia delle cose Place of Publication Milano Publisher Ledizioni ISBN (Print) 9788867051243 Publication status Published - 2013 Externally published Yes Access to Document http://www.ledizioni.it/prodotto/daniel-miller-unantroplogia-delle-cose/ Cite this APA Author BIBTEX Harvard Standard RIS Vancouver Costa, E. (2013).
Costa, Elisabetta
Translation of the book: Miller D. 2009. Stuff. Cambridge: Polity Press. Conference
2013, ISBN: 9788867051243.
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Translation of the book: Miller D. 2009. Stuff. Cambridge: Polity Press. (Miller D. 2013. Per un’Antropologia delle Cose. Milano: Ledizioni) — the University of Groningen research portal Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content the University of Groningen research portal Logo Help & FAQ English Nederlands Home Profiles Research Units Research output Projects Datasets Prizes Activities Press / Media Search by expertise, name or affiliation Translation of the book: Miller D. 2009. Stuff. Cambridge: Polity Press. (Miller D. 2013. Per un’Antropologia delle Cose.
2012
Costa, Elisabetta
Global Social Media Impact Study Blog Conference
2012.
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Global Social Media Impact Study Blog — the University of Groningen research portal Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content the University of Groningen research portal Logo Help & FAQ English Nederlands Home Profiles Research Units Research output Projects Datasets Prizes Activities Press / Media Search by expertise, name or affiliation Global Social Media Impact Study Blog Elisabetta Costa Research output: Other contribution › Popular Overview Original language English Type blog Media of output internet Publication status Published - 2012 Externally published Yes Access to Document http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/global-social-media/category/fieldsites/turkey/ Cite this APA Author BIBTEX Harvard Standard RIS Vancouver Costa, E. (2012). Global Social Media Impact Study Blog.
Costa, Elisabetta
Media-attivismi e tecnopolitiche transnazionali nel Libano post-emergenza Book Chapter
In: Morlacchi Editore, 2012.
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Costa, Elisabetta
Mediattivismi e politiche di sviluppo dei nuovi media a Beirut Book Chapter
In: Morlacchi Editore, 2012.
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2011
Costa, Elisabetta
Mondi mediali e giornalisti: pratiche e rappresentazioni dei corrispondenti stranieri a Beirut Book Chapter
In: University of Milan-Bicocca, 2011.
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Costa, Elisabetta; Cavalli, Nicola; Ferri, Paolo; Mangiatordi, Andrea; Micheli, Marina; Andrea Pozzali, Francesca Scenini; Serenelli, Fabio
Facebook influence on university students' media habits: qualitative results from a field research Conference
US, 2011.
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Costa, Elisabetta
Online journalism and political activism in Lebanon Journal Article
In: Oriente Moderno, vol. 91, no. 1, pp. 125 -137, 2011.
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Archive for the'Methodology'Category Conference
2011.
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Costa, Elisabetta
Social Media for Social Change: New Media Development, Ideologies of the Internet and Activist Imaginary in Lebanon. Book Chapter
In: vol. 25, no. 1, Domes: digest of Middle East studies, 2011.
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Social Media for Social Change: New Media Development, Ideologies of the Internet and Activist Imaginary in Lebanon. Book Chapter
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2010
Costa, Elisabetta; Ferri, Paolo; Cavalli, Nicola; Mangiatordi, Andrea; Mizzella, Stefano; Pozzali, Andrea; Scenini, Francesca
Gli studenti universitari italiani e le nuove tecnologie digitali di comunicazione Journal Article
In: International Journal of Information Sciences for Decision Making, vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 1-10, 2010.
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2009
Costa, Elisabetta; Cavalli, Nicola; Ferri, Paolo; Mangiatordi, Andrea; Pozzali, A; Scenini, F; Paganoni, J
How do university students approach digital technologies: Empirical results and theoretical considerations Conference
2009.
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2008
Costa, Elisabetta; Ferri, P; Scenini, F; Mizzella, S; Cavalli, N; Pozzali, A
Snack Culture? La dieta digitale degli studenti universitari Conference
Milano: Università Milano Biccoca, 2008.
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