CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Rosu, Mihai |
|---|---|
| Title | National identity in social network sites: A case study of a Romanian Facebook community |
| Summary | This thesis investigates the ways in which national identity is being constructed, negotiated and re-defined discursively at a grassroots, horizontal level through the medium of social network sites. The analytical focus of this research are the vernacular understandings of national identity as they are expressed in an online environment. For this purpose, a virtual, social media community on Facebook specialized in landscape photography in Romania has been selected as a case study. Relying on Critical Discourse Analysis combined with other analytical approaches, the relations between nationalist discourses, reified landscape, nostalgia and archaism are disentangled. This research concludes that this particular online community is constructing a nation-brand based on archaism, which has the effect of removing the stigma attached to Romanian national identity, acting at the same time as a space of debate about the nation but also of escaping from perceived hardship into an idealized visual representation of the nation. |
| Supervisor | Pogonyi, Szabolcs |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/rosu_mihai.pdf |
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