Maguire, Zachary (2024) My Facebook community. Journal of Autoethnography, 5 (4). 540 - 553. ISSN 2637-5192
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This article offers an autoethnographic account of the ways in which users of local Facebook groups in a U.S. suburb use the spaces to form community and personal identities. Through a reflection on my experiences of using local suburban Facebook groups, the article makes the argument that Facebook fails to offer a needed space for public discourse. However, it does provide a lens through which the negotiation and performance of a middle-class identity can be affirmed and contested. Through a reflection on the author’s experiences using local Facebook groups over a period of three years, the article aims to better understand how this platform fulfills this role in a suburban New Jersey community.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 2024 by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Nov 2024 15:00 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 04:35 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/126138 |
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