Imperfect strangers: Picturing place, family, and migrant identity on Facebook

Aguirre, Alwin C.; Davies, Sharyn Graham

doi:10.1016/j.dcm.2014.12.001

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“…Chiluwa and Ifukor, 2015;Hunt and Koteyko, 2015;Rashid and Rahman, 2014), in particular, on Facebook Timelines (e.g. Aguirre and Davies, 2015;Androutsopoulos, 2015). Nonetheless, none of these studies scrutinizes the Timeline conversations from the perspective of 'discourse topic management' (Bublitz, 1988;Gardner, 1987) which, I argue, is necessary in understanding how a topic introduced in the Status updates is negotiated with/by Friends through the Comment function.…”

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Topic continuation strategies employed by teachers in managing supportive conversations on Facebook Timeline

Rashid

2016

Discourse Studies

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This article is part of a larger study on teachers' co-construction of social support on a social networking site. The aim of this article is to elucidate how a topic introduced in the Facebook Status updates are negotiated with/by Friends through the Comment function. Adopting discourse topic management as its theoretical framework, the article presents the findings related to topical action of continuing topic observed in the Comments on Timelines, which reflects the strong presence of support on the site in the sense that Friends show their interest in taking up the topic. The analysis shows that strategies for continuing topics in face-to-face conversations are creatively employed by teachers on Timelines and this leads to the emergence of unique characteristics of this new mode of online interaction. In this respect, this article contributes to the expansion of discourse topic theory by highlighting the characteristics of Timeline conversations that emerged from the analysis of topic continuation.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Topic continuation strategies employed by teachers in managing supportive conversations on Facebook Timeline

Rashid

2016

Discourse Studies

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“…The 'ideal' is always something one aspires to, a 'promise' of something that can be achieved or might be gained (van Leuween, 2012. Aguirre and Davies (2015) noted that houses and cars reflect the comfortable middle-class status. Thus, the car in the space usually occupied for an idealized future might represent Ahmed's desire and hope for a better life in material and social terms common among migrants (Witteborn, 2019).…”

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“…Yet his body language suggests a relaxed attitude, and so does the nature scenery. Rather than using a recognizable landmark, he chose a more intimate and domestic outdoor space, which may point to an act of ‘colonizing space’ beyond well-known touristic locations (Aguirre and Davies, 2015: 9). Mohammad’s profile photo gives a sense of ordinary experience suggesting he is settling down and becoming comfortable in his new reality.…”

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Emotional practices of unaccompanied refugee youth on social media

Neag

Zezulkova

2020

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Migration for unaccompanied refugee youth is an emotionally complex process involving mediated experiences and expressions of emotions and affect. This article draws upon social media ethnography conducted with young refugees from African and Middle Eastern countries living in Europe. The participants’ emotional practices were explored through the multimodal analysis of content they shared on Facebook. The findings highlight how the young refugees performed multifaceted yet interconnected emotional practices. These emotional practices potentially assisted their negotiation of emotional losses and gains resulting from migration. The online mediated emotionality, however, cannot be fully comprehended through the reductionist lenses of binary oppositions such as losses and gains, presence and absence, or positive and negative emotions. This article shows that unaccompanied refugee youth’s experience and expression of emotions online are influenced by more than their migration experience, and that their interconnected nature and complexity need to be considered.

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“…Some studies have demonstrated the significance of new media outlets to shape and promote identities of im/migrants (Aguirre and Davies, 2015; Mapelli, 2019). Oiarzabal (2012), for example, discusses the emergence of Basque diaspora-association groups on Facebook and the ways that they utilize the web to fortify their communal identities.…”

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Digital mourning on Facebook: the case of Filipino migrant worker live-in caregivers in Israel

Babis

2020

Media, Culture & Society

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The practice of mourning on social media, known as digital mourning, has become a worldwide phenomenon. While scholarly attention focuses on manifestations of online grief, there is a dearth of research regarding this process among immigrants. Based on a digital ethnography on Facebook on the Filipino community in Israel, this study inquires how migrant workers construct their mourning on digital networks. Focusing on grief upon death in the host country, two different practices of digital mourning were found. When Filipino live-in caregivers announce the loss of their elderly employers, their personal pain is shared on their own Facebook wall, receiving personal condolence comments. However, when a fellow Filipino migrant worker passes away, the pain is shared in closed community groups on Facebook, which are followed by thousands of condolence comments. This practice creates a communal feeling that can be termed Communal Digital Grief, and differs from the Personal Digital Grief experienced by migrants as a result of the loss of their employer. This study sheds light on two different practices of digital mourning. One appears on the personal Facebook walls of the bereaved and has therapeutic impact, while the other appears on closed Facebook groups and contributes to community building.

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Imperfect strangers: Picturing place, family, and migrant identity on Facebook

Cited by 19 publications

References 23 publications

Topic continuation strategies employed by teachers in managing supportive conversations on Facebook Timeline

Topic continuation strategies employed by teachers in managing supportive conversations on Facebook Timeline

Emotional practices of unaccompanied refugee youth on social media

Digital mourning on Facebook: the case of Filipino migrant worker live-in caregivers in Israel

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