Author : Anthony Duc Tran
Release : 2017
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Download or read book Digital Diasporic Cultures and Everyday Media written by Anthony Duc Tran. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the contexts of Metro Vancouver, Canada, this dissertation examines how Vietnamese Vancouverites negotiate with and make sense of their everyday interactions with Vietnamese and Vietnamese diasporic cultures within their local contexts and through digital networks. For many Vietnamese diasporas, everyday practices of communication inherently traverse complex transnational narratives and cultures of war, exile, refugeeism, trauma, and resettlement. These communication practices, often aided by digital technologies, become daily methods of discovering, maintaining, and (re)building cultural identities, as well as playing an important role in mediating old and new relationships between multiple cultures, nation-states, and ideologies of "home" and homeland. With resettlement in various and often urban locations around the globe, the contemporary Vietnamese diasporic condition and their experiences are intrinsically linked to both specific local spaces and global digital networks. However, most research on the Vietnamese diaspora and their media use have often framed the diaspora as a singular entity, positioning the experiences and identities of Vietnamese Americans as representing the diaspora. In highlighting the role of the local within diasporic identities, this project analyzes the offline activities of Vietnamese Vancouverites in relationship to everyday digital media use. As identity formation is always on-going, seemingly small and mundane mediated actions are constant and active processes that shape in various ways how we view ourselves and interact with communities around us. Through this analysis of the interplay between digital media and everyday life in Vancouver, we can begin to investigate the dynamic and often contradictory sites of commonality, difference, and friction that help shape how specific identities, ideologies, cultures, and communities of Vietnamese Vancouverites are negotiated and constructed on a daily basis. Furthermore, in exploring these everyday mediated interactions within specific localities, this dissertation reveals the unique dimensions of migrations, histories, and cultures that provide the ideological underpinnings that drive the understudied Vietnamese Canadian communities in Vancouver. In doing so, the project argues for the need to diversify diasporas through the consideration of local contexts that produce a wide range of diasporic experiences