Cosmopolitanism and the Media

Christensen, Miyase; Jansson, André

doi:10.1057/9780230392267

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“…Everyday life approaches to cosmopolitanism have duly attended to the complex intersections of race, ethnicity, and class that produce communities living with and through difference (Christensen and Jansson, 2015; Georgiou, 2013; Werbner, 1999). While gender analysis has productively critiqued the gender bias of the mobile elite homme du monde figure (Tomlinson, 1999), there is still little discussion about sexuality in relation to cosmopolitanism, though with notable exceptions in queer theory and area studies (e.g., Benedicto, 2014; David, 2015) and digital media research (e.g., Boston, 2016; Roth, 2014; Shield, 2017).…”

Section: Queering Cosmopolitan Socialitiesmentioning

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“…Helpful here is Miyase Christensen and Andre Jansson’s (2015) inquiry into the cosmopolitan attachments that Turkish female migrants living in Stockholm develop in the context of marginalization and segregation. They show how migrants put down roots in their new city in spite of the occasional experiences of alienation produced by interconnected factors of their precarious class position, their ethnic minority status, and exclusionary policies in the city.…”

Section: Queering Cosmopolitan Socialitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Queer cosmopolitanism in the disaster zone: ‘My Grindr became the United Nations’

Ong

2017

International Communication Gazette

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This article reflects on the significance of cosmopolitan socialities and intimacies following disasters, and the opportunities and risks they offer for restorative and reparative action for survivors and their communities. Reporting in particular on the experiences of LGBTQ Filipinos in post-Haiyan Tacloban, I discuss how the presence of foreign aid workers in everyday social spaces provided opportunities for queer identity expression and social attachments. I argue that cosmopolitan socialities, including new connections initiated via mobile dating platforms, were embraced by LGBTQs for their potential to share and repurpose wounds after rupture, especially in a conservative small-town context where LGBTQ identities have been historically repressed. This article attends to the opportunities and risks of queer cosmopolitanism as an uneven experience between middle-class and low-income LGBTQs.

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Section: Queering Cosmopolitan Socialitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Queering Cosmopolitan Socialitiesmentioning

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Queer cosmopolitanism in the disaster zone: ‘My Grindr became the United Nations’

Ong

2017

International Communication Gazette

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“…Our study is part of a larger project, ‘Cosmopolitanism from the Margins’, conducted between 2012 and 2016 and researched various forms of marginalized performativity, identity, and social practice. Our overall results so far appeared in a book (Christensen and Jansson, 2015) and several other publications (e.g., Christensen, 2012; Christensen, 2013 a and b; Christensen and Morley, 2014; Christensen and Titley, 2014; Thor, 2015, forthcoming). The two case studies we present here as two examples are based on qualitative interviews with street artists and graffiti writers and on-site observations in London in 2015 and Stockholm between 2013 and 2016.…”

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confidence: 60%

The reciprocal city: Performing solidarity—Mediating space through street art and graffiti

Christensen

Thor

2017

International Communication Gazette

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In this article, based on two case studies conducted in Stockholm and London, we discuss how graffiti and street art provide forms of expressive cosmopolitanism in reclaiming voice and reciprocity in the city. Through in-depth interviews and observations, we explore how urban artists, using their practice, foster ever-transient and contesting senses of outsidered aesthetics and communicative culture that both seek to challenge the institutionalization and hegemonic indoctrination of today's media cities and, as such, become part of the ensemble that constitute its visual geography. While there are many parallels and inter-urban synchronicity, our results indicate that locally-specific elements are prominent in each city. Both studies indicate that the solidaritarian and spatially mediating character of graffiti and street art, and not just their contents, constitutes a resource in sustaining the possibility of coproducing worldly visions in and of the cities. They both observe struggles for openness and social critique taking place across time and space.

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“…; Berg ; Brinkerhoff, ; Everett, ; Gajjala, ; Horst ; Madianou and Miller ; Marino ; McKay ; Miller ; Vertovec ). How scholars have understood the nature of these ties has varied, from highlighting digital media as a force that strengthens and insulates ethnic identities (Christensen and Jansson ; Erickson ; Jansson ) to finding that digital technologies foster integration (Vermeulen and Elif Keskiner ).…”

Section: Scholarly and Ideological Touchstonesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Useful here are studies in the burgeoning area of mediatization, which consider how rapidly changing technological environments simultaneously transform a variety of social and cultural realms (Jansson ). Mediatization frames new media as indispensable to social life and focuses on how people relate through them to one another and the surrounding world (Christensen and Jansson ). The fact that migrants can and do find paths out of danger with their smartphones, for example, represents one way that technological advances have challenged common sense assumptions linking low sociopolitical status to a lack of power and agency.…”

Section: Scholarly and Ideological Touchstonesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking the Digital Divide: Smartphones as Translanguaging Tools Among Middle Eastern Refugees in New Jersey

McCaffrey

Taha

2019

Annals of Anthropol Pract

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The article examines smartphone use among Middle Eastern refugee families recently resettled in northern New Jersey as an opportunity to reconceptualize the language barrier during the early stages of refugee resettlement. Smartphone access and use among families reveal the interlinguistic conditions of life in resettlement, and ethnographic research demonstrates the way a tech‐savvy population, conventionally considered “digitally unprepared,” creatively approaches communication. We explore smartphones as tools of translanguaging: a strategy in which speakers “mesh” and weave linguistic repertoires together. Qualitative research upends the idea of a language barrier as final or surmountable only through formal language instruction. Instead, smartphones offer multimodal communicative strategies with pragmatic and affective dimensions. We argue that refugees’ own culturally specific interactional norms and priorities can be revalorized within host societies as foundations for linguistic and social integration.

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Cosmopolitanism and the Media

Cited by 36 publications

References 91 publications

Queer cosmopolitanism in the disaster zone: ‘My Grindr became the United Nations’

Queer cosmopolitanism in the disaster zone: ‘My Grindr became the United Nations’

The reciprocal city: Performing solidarity—Mediating space through street art and graffiti

Rethinking the Digital Divide: Smartphones as Translanguaging Tools Among Middle Eastern Refugees in New Jersey

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