Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities
Dear AOIR-ers, A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL e-mail: j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk> tel: +44 1524 592591 Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger<http://twitter.com/#!/johnnyunger>
Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write: Dear AOIR-ers, A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how they construct their identities. If you know of any interesting work in this area, I'd be grateful of you could let me know either off-list or on. We'll collate any responses and circulate in due course. Many thanks, Johnny Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL e-mail: j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk> tel: +44 1524 592591 Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger<http://twitter.com/#!/johnnyunger>
Dear Johann, I investigated something similar in my PhD thesis. Unfortunately it is in Italian but I published a part of it in this article: "Media as home making tools: life story of a Filipino migrant in Milan", Media, Culture & society, 33(6), 869-883. Here the link to read it: http://www.scribd.com/doc/79449459/Media-as-Home-Making-Tools-MC-S-2011 Best tiziano 2014-02-05 Unger, Johann <j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk>:
Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write:
Dear AOIR-ers,
A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how they construct their identities. If you know of any interesting work in this area, I'd be grateful of you could let me know either off-list or on. We'll collate any responses and circulate in due course.
Many thanks, Johnny
Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL
e-mail: j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk> tel: +44 1524 592591 Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger<http://twitter.com/#!/johnnyunger> _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Dear Johnny, Kindly consider these publications (apologies for the self-promotion) Hepp, A., Bozdag, C. & Suna, L. (2012). Mediatized migrants: Media cultures and communicative networking in the diaspora. In L. Fortunati, R. Pertierra & J. Vincent (Eds.), Migrations, diaspora, and information technology in global societies, (pp. 172-188). London: Routledge. Leurs, K. & Ponzanesi, S. (2013). Intersectionality, digital identities and migrant youths. In C. Carter, L. Steiner & L. McLaughlin (Eds.), Routledge companion to media and gender. London: Routledge. Leurs, K. & Ponzanesi, S. (2013). Bits of homeland. In C. Ponte & M. Georgiou (Eds.) Special issue on Media, technology and the migrant family. Observatorio (OBS*), 7 (1). Leurs, K., Midden, E. & Ponzanesi, S. (2012). Digital multiculturalism in the Netherlands: Religious, ethnic, and gender positioning by Moroccan-Dutch youth. Religion and Gender, 2 (1), 150-175. Leurs, K. & Ponzanesi, S. (2011). Mediated crossroads: Youthful digital diasporas. M/C Journal, 14(2), http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ Leurs, K. & Ponzanesi, S. (2011). Communicative spaces of their own. Migrant girls performing selves using Instant Messaging software. Feminist Review, 99, 55-78. Mainsah, H. (2011). Transcending the national imaginery: Digital online media and the transnational networks of ethnic minority youth in norway. In E. Eide & K. Nikunen (Eds.), Media in motion: Cultural complexity and migration in the Nordic region, (pp. 201-219). Surrey: Ashgate. Mainsah, H. (2009). Ethnic minorities and digital technologies. New spaces for constructing identity. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Oslo University, Norway. Hope these are useful, Best wishes, Koen. Koen Leurs, PhD | Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher, LSE | | Affiliated researcher Graduate Gender Studies / Institute for Cultural Enquiry (ICON) Utrecht University | www.uu.nl/wiredup | http://www.mignetproject.eu/ | www.koenleurs.net ________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of tiziano bonini [tiziano.bonini@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2014 2:30 PM To: Unger, Johann Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities Dear Johann, I investigated something similar in my PhD thesis. Unfortunately it is in Italian but I published a part of it in this article: "Media as home making tools: life story of a Filipino migrant in Milan", Media, Culture & society, 33(6), 869-883. Here the link to read it: http://www.scribd.com/doc/79449459/Media-as-Home-Making-Tools-MC-S-2011 Best tiziano 2014-02-05 Unger, Johann <j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk>:
Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write:
Dear AOIR-ers,
A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how they construct their identities. If you know of any interesting work in this area, I'd be grateful of you could let me know either off-list or on. We'll collate any responses and circulate in due course.
Many thanks, Johnny
Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL
e-mail: j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk> tel: +44 1524 592591 Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger<http://twitter.com/#!/johnnyunger> _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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-- Tiziano Bonini ||| lecturer in media studies ||| Arts, Culture and Comparative Literature Institute IULM University of Milano via Carlo Bo 4 20143 Milano, Italy ::: Academia ::: http://iulm.academia.edu/TizianoBonini ::: Audio/Radio ::: www.radiofactory.org http://audioboo.fm/tizianobonini _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Hi, Johnny, With apologise for self-promotion and not being directly related (not about Facebook), but relevant - two chapters on digital communication in identities construction of post-soviet migrants in the UK: (2013) ‘Digital debates on Soviet memory in the national identity construction of post-soviet migrants’, in Negotiating Linguistic, Cultural and Social Identities in the Post-Soviet World, Sarah Smith and Conny Opitz eds., Peter Lang, 163-182. ISBN 978-3-0343-0840-3 pb. (2010) ‘Digital communication of the Russian-speaking community as a reflection of language contact and performance of identity’, in Instrumentarium of Linguistics. Sociolinguisitc Approaches to Non-Standard Russian, Arto Mustajoki et al. eds., Slavica Helsingiensia 40, 369-380. Both PDFs are available here https://cambridge.academia.edu/GalinaNikiporetsTakigawa, Best, Galina On 2014-02-05 13:01, Unger, Johann wrote:
Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write:
Dear AOIR-ers,
A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how they construct their identities. If you know of any interesting work in this area, I'd be grateful of you could let me know either off-list or on. We'll collate any responses and circulate in due course.
Many thanks, Johnny
Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL
e-mail: j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk> tel: +44 1524 592591 Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger<http://twitter.com/#!/johnnyunger> _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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-- Dr Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa Department of Slavonic Studies University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA https://cambridge.academia.edu/GalinaNikiporetsTakigawa
Hi there, Please also considered the following publications: Oiarzabal, Pedro J. and Ulf-Dietrich Reips. (Eds.) Special Issue “Migration and the Internet: Social Networking and Diasporas.” Journal of Ethnicity and Migration Studies, Vol. 38, No. 9 (2012): 1333-1490 (ISSN 1369-183X).Oiarzabal, Pedro J. “Diaspora Basques and Online Social Networks: An Analysis of Users of Basque Institutional Diaspora Groups on Facebook.” Journal of Ethnicity and Migration Studies, Vol. 38, No. 9 (2012): 1469-1485.Oiarzabal, Pedro J. (2011). “The Online Social Networks of the Basque Diaspora. Fast Forwarded, 2005-2009,” in Javier Echeverria, Andoni Alonso, and Pedro J. Oiarzabal (eds.). Knowledge Communities. Conference Series. Vol. 6. Reno: Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno. (Hardcover, 260 pages; ISBN 978-1-877802-97-3). Oiarzabal, Pedro J. (2013). The Basque Diaspora Webscape: Identity, Nation, and Homeland, 1990s-2010s. Basque Diaspora and Migration Studies Series, No. 7. Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno. (Paperback, 272 pages; ISBN 978-1-935709-41-1). Oiarzabal, Pedro J. and Andoni Alonso. (Eds.) (2010). Diasporas in the New Media Age: Identity, Politics and Community. Reno: University Nevada Press. (Paperback, 384 pages; ISBN 978-0-87417-815-9). Best regards, Pedro Pedro J. Oiarzabal, PhD pedro.oiarzabal@deusto.es University of Deusto Pedro Arrupe Human Rights Institute, Avenida de las Universidades, 24 48007 - Bilbao Tel.:+34-944139003 (ext. 2077) http://www.idh.deusto.es Have you seen my latest book, The Basque Diaspora Webscape: Identity, Nation and Homeland, 1990s-2010s? bit.ly/1f01i50
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 15:05:27 +0000 From: gn254@cam.ac.uk To: j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk; tiziano.bonini@gmail.com; K.H.A.Leurs@uu.nl; air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook and the construction of (migrants') identities
Hi, Johnny,
With apologise for self-promotion and not being directly related (not about Facebook), but relevant - two chapters on digital communication in identities construction of post-soviet migrants in the UK:
(2013) ‘Digital debates on Soviet memory in the national identity construction of post-soviet migrants’, in Negotiating Linguistic, Cultural and Social Identities in the Post-Soviet World, Sarah Smith and Conny Opitz eds., Peter Lang, 163-182. ISBN 978-3-0343-0840-3 pb.
(2010) ‘Digital communication of the Russian-speaking community as a reflection of language contact and performance of identity’, in Instrumentarium of Linguistics. Sociolinguisitc Approaches to Non-Standard Russian, Arto Mustajoki et al. eds., Slavica Helsingiensia 40, 369-380.
Both PDFs are available here https://cambridge.academia.edu/GalinaNikiporetsTakigawa,
Best,
Galina
On 2014-02-05 13:01, Unger, Johann wrote:
Meanwhile, I'm trying to finish my email! Apologies for the earlier, unfinished draft. Here's what I meant to write:
Dear AOIR-ers,
A PhD student in my department is currently trying to finish his thesis on migrants' use if Facebook, with a particular focus on how they construct their identities. If you know of any interesting work in this area, I'd be grateful of you could let me know either off-list or on. We'll collate any responses and circulate in due course.
Many thanks, Johnny
Dr J W Unger Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University LA1 4YL
e-mail: j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk<mailto:j.unger@lancaster.ac.uk> tel: +44 1524 592591 Follow me on Twitter @johnnyunger<http://twitter.com/#!/johnnyunger> _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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-- Dr Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa Department of Slavonic Studies University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA https://cambridge.academia.edu/GalinaNikiporetsTakigawa _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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Galina Nikiporets-Takigawa -
Leurs, K.H.A. (Koen) -
P.J. Oiarzabal -
tiziano bonini -
Unger, Johann