Access to Technology in Transnational Social Fields: Simultaneity and Digital Literacy Socialization of Adult Immigrants

Noguerón‐Liu, Silvia

doi:10.1080/19313152.2013.746801

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“…Noguerón-Liu (2013) provided a concrete example of how computer-mediated access to and use of the Internet, combined with the provision of support to make such access meaningful, contributed to adult Spanish-speaking American immigrants’ fuller participation in local and transnational social networks, relationships, and learning. The three focal participants (a man from Mexico and a married couple from Cuba), all university-educated in their countries of origin with limited prior computer literacy, took part in a university web-design course in Arizona through a binational U.S.-Mexican university initiative.…”

Section: Transnational and Digital Literacies Identities And Habitusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transnationalism, Multilingualism, and Identity

Duff¹

2015

Ann Rev Appl Linguist

189

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Applied linguistics is a field concerned with issues pertaining to language(s) and literacies in the real world and with the people who learn, speak, write, process, translate, test, teach, use, and lose them in myriad ways. It is also fundamentally concerned with transnationalism, mobility, and multilingualism-the movement across cultural, linguistic, and (often) geopolitical or regional borders and boundaries. The field is, furthermore, increasingly concerned with identity construction and expression through particular language and literacy practices across the life span, at home, in diaspora settings, in short-term and long-term sojourns abroad for study or work, and in other contexts and circumstances. In this article, I discuss some recent areas in which applied linguists have investigated the intersections of language (multilingualism), identity, and transnationalism. I then present illustrative studies and some recurring themes and issues.

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Section: Transnational and Digital Literacies Identities And Habitusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transnationalism, Multilingualism, and Identity

Duff¹

2015

Ann Rev Appl Linguist

189

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“…Some researches specifically focus on the role smartphones play in improving the mental health of female immigrants and strengthening their communities by creating various new forms of interpersonal communication (García, Ferrás, Rocha, & Aguilera, 2019;Kędra, 2020). To some extent, the use of social media has weakened the rather hierarchical structure within immigrant communities, making digital literacy an increasingly crucial skill for their societal and cultural survival (Noguerón-Liu, 2013). It has also improved the public profile and cultural visibility for digitally competent immigrant groups.…”

Section: Immigration Social Media and Digital Diasporamentioning

confidence: 99%

Chinese first, woman second: Social media and the cultural identity of female immigrants

Chen

Tian

Chang

2021

Asian Journal of Women's Studies

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Based on the conceptual framework of digital diaspora, this article explores the role social media plays in the development of migrant cultural identity and its political potential among digital forms. Using in-depth interviews and online observations, it analyzes the motives, purposes, strategies and outcomes of the use of WeChat, a leading Chinese social media platform, by Chinese female immigrants in Switzerland. Through thematic analysis, the article distills three patterns of WeChat usage by these women. Firstly, it notes how they make use of the technological affordances of WeChat to remain connected with their native culture. Secondly, it explains how, after acquisition of economic capital, they are able to forge a steady intersectional identity in their new host country. And finally, it problematizes their strategy to strive for social equality.

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“…Work on the multilingual and multimodal literacies and literacy practices of transnational students (Lam, 2009; Lam & Rosario-Ramos, 2009; Lam & Warriner, 2012; Noguerón-Liu, 2013) helps us to focus on the flows of information, resources, and practices across multiple geographies of learning (Leander, Phillips, Taylor, Nespor, & Lewis, 2010). Hugo’s use of digital tools can be envisioned not as a discrete skill or a particular type of literacy but rather as a way that students can become producers of spaces in processes of literate production rather than solely consumers of media (Schwartz, Noguerón-Liu, & González, 2014).…”

Section: Transnational Literaciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Imagining Literacy Equity

González

2016

Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice

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Theorizing flows of community practices implicates three interrelated themes: (1) theorizing practices rather than practicing theories, (2) theorizing our stories, and (3) research as responsibility to the communities in which we work. One way to claim literacy research as a principled epistemological stance is to confront the real-life effects of literacy theorizing and the practicing of our theories. We must challenge analyses that disadvantage youth from nondominant populations by deconstructing the categories that devalue communities and educational possibilities. To keep our insights, only within the domain of theory and not the practice of theory can allow the reproduction of symbolic violence. Theories like the ''culture of poverty'' and the language gap promise a facile explanatory power for complex multilayered issues. By engaging with multilingualism, transnational literacies, and community communicative flows, we can theorize communicative practices as part of an array of the multiple and multimodal semiotic systems and resources that flow in and through communities. It is argued that we all translanguage across the ecologies of our everyday practices through the full and ample use of our linguistic repertoires. In that sense, we are all translingual. If we think of moving across language and literacy borders as a space for pedagogical potential, we can underscore that learning is about engagement with diverse voices and conceptualizations. Students can develop a translingual awareness that perceives languages as plural and fluid, and this awareness can help students succeed outside of monolingual norms.

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Access to Technology in Transnational Social Fields: Simultaneity and Digital Literacy Socialization of Adult Immigrants

Cited by 6 publications

References 31 publications

Transnationalism, Multilingualism, and Identity

Transnationalism, Multilingualism, and Identity

Chinese first, woman second: Social media and the cultural identity of female immigrants

Imagining Literacy Equity

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