Introduction: Beyond the centrality of media and the centrality of space

Tarantino, Matteo; Tosoni, Simone

doi:10.5210/fm.v18i11.4953

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“…Therefore, it is a suitable unit to analyse the social phenomenon of digitally performed ethnicity. Media plays an important role by circulating representations (Jansson, 2013;Tarantino and Tosoni, 2013), and digital media allows everyone to produce and circulate content.…”

Section: Digital Performance Of Ethnicitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital ethnicity affordances: from a liability to an asset in immigrant entrepreneurship

Evansluong

Grip

Karayianni³

2023

IJEBR

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PurposeThis paper aims to understand how immigrant entrepreneurs use digital opportunities to overcome the liability of newness and foreignness and how an immigrant's ethnicity can be digitally performed as an asset in business.Design/methodology/approachThe study adopts an inductive multiple case study approach using social media content. The data consist of over 3,500 posts, images and screenshots from Facebook, Instagram and the webpages of seven successful Vietnamese restaurants in Sweden. Grounded content analysis was conducted using NVivo.FindingsThe findings suggest that digitalising ethnic artifacts can mediate and facilitate three digital performances that together can turn ethnicity from a liability to an asset: (i) preserving performance through digital ethnicising, (ii) embracing performance through digital generativitising and (iii) appropriating performance through digital fusionising. The results support the introduction of a conceptual framework depicting the interwoven duality of horizontal and vertical boundary blurring, in which the former takes place between the offline and online spaces of immigrant businesses, and the latter occurs between the home and host country attachment of the immigrant businesses.Originality/valueThis study responds to calls for understanding how immigrant entrepreneurs can overcome the liability of foreignness. It offers a fresh look at ethnicity, which has been seen in a negative light in the field of immigrant entrepreneurship. This study illuminates that ethnicity can be used as a resource in immigrant entrepreneurship, specifically through the use of digital artifacts and digital platforms.

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Section: Digital Performance Of Ethnicitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital ethnicity affordances: from a liability to an asset in immigrant entrepreneurship

Evansluong

Grip

Karayianni³

2023

IJEBR

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“…However, the literature seems to have neglected a critical perspective on how space works: 'Media studies appeared less prone to "following through" to the level of spatial production' (Tarantino and Tosoni 2013). For instance, despite drawing on Lefebvre's scholarship, Foth et al (2009, xxviii) uses the metaphor of 'city-body' in order to integrate urbanism and media ecology: 'How do the cells of the city cluster to form tissue and organs?…”

Section: The Place Of Space In Wireless Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Gentrification in the mesh?

Cardullo¹

2017

City

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The paper offers a critical perspective on practices of construction and consumption of wireless mesh networks in urban environments. It narrates Open Wireless Network (OWN) in Deptford, at a time when this inner borough of London was undergoing an intense gentrification process. Drawing on critical urban theory, the ethnography frames OWN as a sociotechnical assemblage deeply entangled with everyday city life. It argues that gentrification poses challenges to a grassroots wireless network like OWN, because it risks reducing it to an individualised utility and an aesthetic provision. The initial findings suggest the communitarian construction of this wireless network has helped to maintain a commitment to reciprocity, potentially offering-for its users, developers and participants-pockets of resistance against their cultural displacement. Although providing free wireless broadband to many, the paper argues that wireless communication became of secondary importance to the locals who joined the network. For years in fact, OWN contributed to face-to-face interventions, local knowledge exchange and transfer of competences, becoming a relatively known presence in the area. The research operates on a multidisciplinary level evoking hackers, technology and the production of urban space. It wants to stitch back together some of the literature on socio-technical assemblage and on the 'right to the city'.

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“…Many contributions, however, seems to neglect a critical perspective on how space works: 'Media studies appear[ed] less prone to "following through" to the level of spatial production' (Tarantino and Tosoni, 2013; see Aiello, Oakley and Tarantino, in press). 13 Despite drawing on Lefebvre's critical scholarship, Foth (2009), for instance, uses the metaphor of city-body in order to integrate urbanism and media ecology: city is thought as a 'living organism', 'alive with movement'.…”

Section: The Place Of Space In Wireless Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Gentrification in the mesh? Ethnography of Open Wireless Network - Deptford

Cardullo¹

2017

Preprint

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The paper offers a critical perspective on practices of construction and consumption of wireless mesh networks in urban environments. It narrates Open Wireless Network (OWN) in Deptford, at a time when this inner borough of London undergoes an intense gentrification process. Drawing on critical urban theory, the ethnography frames OWN as a socio-technical assemblage deeply entangled with everyday city life. It argues that gentrification poses challenges to a grassroot wireless network like OWN, because it risks reducing it to an individualised utility and an aesthetic provision. The initial findings suggest the communitarian construction of this wireless network has helped to maintain a commitment to reciprocity, potentially offering—for its users, developers, and participants—pockets of resistance against their cultural displacement. Although providing free wireless broadband to many, the paper argues that wireless communication became of secondary importance to the locals who joined the network. For years in fact, OWN contributed to face-to-face interventions, local knowledge exchange and transfer of competences, becoming a relatively known presence in the area.The research operates on a multidisciplinary level evoking hackers, technology, and the production of urban space. It wants to stitch back together some of the literature on socio-technical assemblage and on the 'right to the city'.

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Introduction: Beyond the centrality of media and the centrality of space

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Digital ethnicity affordances: from a liability to an asset in immigrant entrepreneurship

Digital ethnicity affordances: from a liability to an asset in immigrant entrepreneurship

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Gentrification in the mesh? Ethnography of Open Wireless Network - Deptford

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