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This book explores how social media and its networked communities dismantles, builds, and shapes identity. Social media has been instrumental, sometimes dangerously so, in binding together different communities; with thirteen original chapters by leading academics in the field, the volume investigates how belonging, togetherness, and loyalty is created in the digital sphere, in a way that transcends, and even dismantles, ethnic and national borders around the world.
In tandem, the volume analyses the further threats to identity presented by the ease with which fabricated news and information spreads on social media, resulting in many users becoming unable to distinguish credible data from junk data. Social media is both creative and destructive in its influence on identity, and therefore the growing fake news crisis threatens the very stability of the world's communities. This book provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findingsin the area, including diverse case studies and analyses of social media experiences in indigenous and urban communities around the world, including China, Africa, and Central and South America.
List of contents
Section I: Social Networking, Ethnolinguistic Connotations and Interpretations of Identity.- Chapter 1: A bird's eye view of networked communities and human identity.- Chapter 2: De-stigmatization and Identity Refactoring of Chinese Online Celebrities: Case of the Chinese Economy.- Chapter 3: Social Media as Mechanism for Accountability: Cases of China's Environmental Civil Society.- Section II: Media representations, North Digital Public Cultures and the Global North.- Chapter 4: Hate speech and the re-emergence of Caucasian Nationalism in the United States.- Chapter 5: How global cyber mediated news networks and social media platforms influenced messages about COVID-19 pandemic: Offering sociological solutions for Marginalized People.- Section III: Social Media and ethnic identities negotiated.- Chapter 6: How Television news media reinforce racialized representations of Haitian and Colombian migration in multicultural urban Chile.- Chapter 7: How social media is dismantling socio-cultural taboos in Afghanistan.- Section IV: Media representations in Global South: Discovering new routes for business.- Chapter 8: Ethnic Diversity and Human Capital Development in the Digital Age.- Chapter 9: Understanding the causes and consequence of COVID-19 Information Crisis in Africa: Defining an agenda for effective social media engagement during health pandemics.- Section V: Media Role in Negotiating National Identities.- Chapter 10: Negotiating and performing Vietnamese cultural identity using memes: A multiple case study of Vietnamese youth.- Chapter 11: Identity Negotiation and Cosmopolitanism in Social Media: The Case of London and Sao Paulo migrant communities.- Section VI: Geopolitics and cyber mediated communication initiatives as tools of ethnicity and diversity.- Chapter 12: Constructing the Consumer in the Digital Culture: American Brands and China's Generation Z.- Chapter 13: Ethnic group experiences with social media: The case of the Cherokee/and NativeAmericans Facebook group.- Chapter 14: A Revisit to networked communities and human identity.
About the author
Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.
