Digital Transnationalism

2023-02-06 Social Science

Author : Wanning Sun
Release : 2023-02-06
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Digital Transnationalism by : Wanning Sun

Download or read book Digital Transnationalism written by Wanning Sun. This book was released on 2023-02-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in English on Chinese-language media in Australia, Digital Transnationalism explores the challenges, opportunities and development of this sector against the backdrop of China’s rise, its soft power agenda, and renewed hostility between China and the global West. Situated in the Australian context, this study nevertheless is essential to understand the complex and evolving nature of Chinese-language digital media, and the role they play in fostering digital transnationalism among first-generation Chinese migrants across the globe.

WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora

2022-03-31 Social Science

Author : Wanning Sun
Release : 2022-03-31
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 033/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora by : Wanning Sun

Download or read book WeChat and the Chinese Diaspora written by Wanning Sun. This book was released on 2022-03-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WeChat (the international version of Weixin), launched in 2012, has rapidly become the most favoured Chinese social media. Globally available, equally popular both inside and outside China and widely adopted by Chinese migrants, WeChat has fundamentally changed the ways in which Mandarin-speaking migrants conduct personal messaging, engage in group communication and community business activities, produce and distribute news, and access and share information. This book explores a wide range of issues connected to the ways in which WeChat works and is used, across the world among the newest members of the Chinese diaspora. Arguing that digital/social media afford a great degree of individual agency, as well as a collective capacity for sustaining an ‘imagined community’, the book shows how WeChat’s assemblage of infrastructure and regulatory frameworks, technical capabilities, content and sense of community has led to the construction of a particular kind of diasporic Chinese world, at a time marked both by China’s rise, and anxiety about Chinese influence in the West. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Diaspora and Transnationalism

2010 Social Science

Author : Rainer Bauböck
Release : 2010
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 382/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Diaspora and Transnationalism written by Rainer Bauböck. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diaspora & transnationalism are widely used concepts in academic & political discourses. Although originally referring to quite different phenomena, they increasingly overlap today. Such inflation of meanings goes hand in hand with a danger of essentialising collective identities. This book analyses this topic.

Digital Research Methods and the Diaspora

2023-11-29 Social Science

Author : Dang Nguyen
Release : 2023-11-29
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 572/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Digital Research Methods and the Diaspora written by Dang Nguyen. This book was released on 2023-11-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The computational turn in the social sciences and humanities has generated much excitement about the potential to refresh our approaches to the study of the techno-social. From natively digital to digitised data, researchers of digital diasporas increasingly find themselves working with a range of disparate digital objects. These digital objects can include anything from hyperlink to timestamps, from platform behavioural metrics such as react, share, or retweet to different media formats such as text, image, pre-recorded or livestreamed videos. Taking these disparate objects into account, this book introduces digital methods as research strategies not only for dealing with the ephemeral and unstable nature of tracing the diaspora with digital data, but also for reconceptualizing digital diasporas as assemblages and networks of more-than-human actors. The book also introduces a range of theoretical perspectives and methodological techniques to studying digital diasporas as contingent and processual hybrid collectives of heterogeneous material, cultural, and practice-based assemblages. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in the digital space and transnational communities.

Transnational Migrations in the Asia-Pacific

2018-08-15 Social Science

Author : Catherine Gomes
Release : 2018-08-15
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 546/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Transnational Migrations in the Asia-Pacific by : Catherine Gomes

Download or read book Transnational Migrations in the Asia-Pacific written by Catherine Gomes. This book was released on 2018-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection interrogates the diversity of transnational migration experiences in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of digital ethnography in order to explore the transformative effects digital media plays in these experiences. While there has been work on the various ways in which internet communication technologies (ICTs) particularly mobile communication allows for various forms of connectivity between individuals and groups in this age of hyper (transnational) mobility, there is a scarcity on the way digital media presents challenges, creates agency and alters relationships within the broad umbrella of the transnational migration experience. The authors in this collection– who come from diverse disciplinary backgrounds across social, cultural, education and communication research – present cutting edge cross and trans disciplinary analyses of transnational migration where digital media becomes a creative, if not fundamental avenue, for migrants to develop new strategies for dealing with their cross-border mobilities.

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