[Linganth] Lauren Zentz's new book

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,

Özge Korkmaz interviews Lauren Zenz on her book, Narrating Stance, 
Morality, and Political Identity: Building a Movement on Facebook
today on the CaMP anthropology blog.

https://campanthropology.org <https://campanthropology.org>

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb:

This book offers unique insights into the use of Facebook after the 2016 
US presidential election,
interrogating how users in private groups bring their individual 
experiences movement building and
  identity construction, while also critically reflecting on the 
implications and possibilities of social media for ethnography and theory.

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 communicate moral authority and virtuosity vis-à-vis 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 and access to this data as 
these technologies develop further.
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