The chapter also addresses how feelings can be looked upon as an emotional compass to
navigate the internet, or in this case, Facebook.
The last empirical chapter, Chapter 6. “Facebook and Performed Sociality” ties up the themes
discussed earlier. It addresses how sociality is performed online and how Facebook is part of
the process of creating and contextualize frames to perform within. The chapter addresses
what this can tell us about Facebook's algorithms and how they create a “Happy place,”
security and to some extent, surveillance. Through an empirical case, the chapter aims to
demonstrate what can be possible, and in this case, an authentic, outcome when Facebook is
interpreted as the internet amongst local users in Yangon. I aim to understand how Facebook
has gained its position, how the locals in Yangon use it, how the immediate access potentially
affects them on both personal and national levels, and that is a potential “next” for Myanmar
and Facebook. Chapter 7. “The Digital Tsunami – Reflecting Throughs” aims towards some
closing reflections on temporality, and moreover, the thesis empirical findings.
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