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

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As the age of social media progresses, the Asia Pacific, like the rest of the world, is experiencing an increase in cultural diversity and global connection. Those within the region are witnessing rapid social and cultural changes. As individuals and groups navigate through an increasingly mobile, transnational and multicultural ethnographic landscape, social media provides a sense of belonging for these networked communities.

Social media allows individuals and groups to map and redefine their evolving communal and national identities and thus form sometimes new, vibrant and necessary communities to help create individual and group belonging and agency. While creating a sense of belonging and agency in their respective homeland(s), individuals and groups are also able to connect to global networks. Recognising these layered and intertwined complexities governing societal and cultural cohesion, the authors in this collection each discuss the innate challenges of the social media era on culture, identity and social interaction. This original empirical work documents social media as a user platform for the expression of individual and collective identities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783085941
• Artikelnr.: 47137187

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.