The Asia-Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Asia Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility addresses and discusses the challenges of community and identity in the evolving transnational migrant and ethnographic landscapes of the region in the era of social media.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781783085927
• ISBN-10: 1783085924
• Artikelnr.: 45580488

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.