‘This is a highly recommended book that will broaden readers’ horizons on social media and its uses and consequences in a distinct cultural context. A stimulating and vivid read, it will invite both social media scholars and anthropologists to see the relations between social media and social life in a new light. Because of the particular nature of this research project, readers who intend to explore these issues further from a theoretical point of view, are recommended to consult the other books of the series.’
Social Media & Society

‘Costa captures and sustains the attention of the reader when describing events, characters, and places. Her monograph is revealing and immensely contributes to anthropological understanding that media is appropriated differently in different settings.’
New Media & Society

‘This ethnographic study presents an opportunity to listen the stories of people in Mardin, for instance, we get chance to read about the state violence from a victim’s perspective; we listen a woman telling about her husband who took their children and left her for another woman he met online. While reading the book sometimes it feels like watching a documentary and it should read by not just academics but also by the ones who would like to touch the other’s lives.’ Kadın/Woman 2000, Journal for Women’s Studies

‘the book’s contribution to social media research is immensely important since it provides a nuanced approach to digital technologies by tracing their particular use in a local context… one of the most comprehensive studies on social media anthropology in Turkey’
Reflektif Journal of Social Sciences