Abstract
The growth of social media over the past decade has transformed how we have interacted with the World Wide Web. This paper presents data from a research project coproduced with community organisations that had created an online archive through a Facebook site of a deprived neighbourhood in Edinburgh, Scotland. Framing the data from this site in the literature on class, place, stigma and belonging, the paper presents further evidence of the ‘we-being’ of working-class residence as opposed to the elective belonging of middle class people, and the stigma towards working-class neighbourhoods from wider society. The paper concludes by highlighting the benefits of social media in producing a natural discussion about neighbourhoods and residence and the importance of creating ladders to the cloud for working-class neighbourhoods.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 22-39 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Housing Studies |
Volume | 30 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- methods
- neighbourhood belonging
- neighbourhood deprivation
- social class
- Social media
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
- Sociology and Political Science
- Urban Studies