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Neighbourhood Belonging, Social Class and Social Media--Providing Ladders to the Cloud

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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.

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  • Peter Matthews, 2015. "Neighbourhood Belonging, Social Class and Social Media--Providing Ladders to the Cloud," Housing Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(1), pages 22-39, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:chosxx:v:30:y:2015:i:1:p:22-39
    DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.953448
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    1. Peter Matthews & Christopher Poyner, 2019. "The experience of living in deprived neighbourhoods for LGBT+ people: Making home in difficult circumstances," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 51(7), pages 1499-1515, October.

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