The Asia-Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility (eBook, PDF)

The Search for Community and Identity on and through Social Media
Redaktion: Gomes, Catherine

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The growing mobility of people within and into the Asia Pacific region has created environments of increasing diversity as nations become hosts to both permanent and temporary multicultural societies. How do we begin to gauge the impact of mobility and multiculturalism on individuals and groups in this diverse region today? The authors of The Asia Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility turn to social media as a tool of inquiry to map how mobile subjects and minorities articulate their sense of community and identity. The authors see social media as a platform that allows users to document and express their individual and collective identities, sometimes in restrictive communication environments, while providing a sense of belonging and agency. They present original empirical work that attempts to help readers understand how mobile subjects who circulate in the Asia Pacific create a sense of community for themselves and articulate their ethnic, ideological and national identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783085934
• Artikelnr.: 47139593

Autorenporträt

Catherine Gomes is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors;
Introduction; Section 1: Social Media, Mobility, Transience and
Transnational Relationships; 1. Female Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers
in Hong Kong: A Case Study of Advocacy through Facebook and the Story of
Erwiana Sulistyaningsih; 2. Media and Mobilities in Australia: A Case Study
of Southeast Asian International Students' Media Use for Well-Being; 3.
Connecting and Re-Connecting with Vietnam: Migration, Vietnamese Overseas
Communities and Social Media; 4. Liking It, Not Loving It: International
Students in Singapore and Their Navigation of Everyday Life in Transience;
Section 2: Social Media and Existing Multicultural Relationships in a
Controlled Communication Environment.; 5. Is 'Allah Just for Muslims'?:
Religion, Indigenization and Boundaries in Malaysia; 6. Ethnic Minorities
in the Multi-Ethnic Heritage in Melaka: Reconstructing Dutch Eurasian and
Chitty Melaka Identites through Facebook; 7. Nostalgia and Memory:
Remembering the Malayan Communist Revolution in the Online Age; 8. New and
Traditional Media in Malaysia: Conflicting Choices for Seeking Useful and
Trusted Information in Everyday Life; Index.