Transnational Migrations in the Asia-Pacific - Transformative Experiences in the Age of Digital Media

This book uses digital ethnography to study critically the impact of digital media on transnational migrations, using case studies on diverse topics including transient migrants, gender and religion, ethnic migrants, refugees, intergenerational relationships, and transnational relationships across the borders of space and time

Sommario

List of Figures / Acknowledgements / Introduction / PART 1. THE NEW CHALLENGES DIGITAL MEDIA CREATES IN UNDERSTANDING THE TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION EXPERIENCE / 1. Navigating Online Down Under: International Students' Digital Journeys in Australia by Shanton Chang, Catherine Gomes and Fran Martin / 2. Bridging Parental Expectations and Children's Aspirations: Creative Strategies in Migrant Students' Mediated Communication with their Left-behind Families by Becky Pham and Sun Sun Lim / PART 2. NEW FORMS OF AGENCY DIGITAL MEDIA FACILITATES / 3. Chapter 3: Fight Back through Facebook: Retaliating against Local Gossip and Creating New Identities by Monika Winarnita and Nicholas Herriman / 4. Indian Migrants and their Transnational Families: Communication across Time and Borders by Supriya Singh / 5. A Sense of Belonging: Social Media Use of Latin American migrants in Australia by Glenda Mejía, Trinidad Espinosa Abascal and Val Colic-Peisker / PART 3. THE EXPERIENCES OF DIGITAL MEDIA TO ALTER RELATIONSHIPS IN THE T

Info autore

Catherine Gomes is an Associate Professor at the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University.

Riassunto

This book uses digital ethnography to study critically the impact of digital media on transnational migrations, using case studies on diverse topics including transient migrants, gender and religion, ethnic migrants, refugees, intergenerational relationships, and transnational relationships across the borders of space and time

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Catherine Yeoh Gomes
• Con la collaborazione di: Catherine Gomes (Editore), Gomes Catherine (Editore), Brenda S A Yeoh (Editore), Brenda S. A. Yeoh (Editore), Yeoh Brenda S. A. (Editore)
• Editore: Rowman and Littlefield
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781786605535
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-553-5
• Pagine: 248
• Serie: Media, Culture and Communicati; Media, Culture and Communication in Asia-Pacific Societies; Media, Culture and Communication in Asia-Pacific Societies
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Media Studies, Globalization, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social groups, Migration, immigration & emigration, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Social and cultural anthropology