Emotional practices of unaccompanied refugee youth on social media

Neag, Annamária; Zezulkova, Marketa

doi:10.1177/1367877920929710

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“…Here, we describe how platforms off er themselves as a space where social life can be lived. For those on the move, smartphones and other devices are lifelines that help them navigate through countries, bureaucratic mazes, and other unknowns (for an in-depth discussion on the specifi c case of unaccompanied youth, see Mendoza Pérez & Morgade Salgado, 2019; Neag & Supa, 2020;Sapam & Jijina, 2020). At the same time, as we have found, these platforms are actual living spaces.…”

Section: Findings: Th E Ontological Existence Of the Migrant Platformed Bodymentioning

confidence: 69%

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Sefton‐Green²

2022

MedieKultur

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For unaccompanied refugee youth, technology occupies a central role in their lives. It helps them when crossing countries, finding a shelter, and accessing education, or even in negotiating family relations online (e.g., Çelikaksoy & Wadensjö, 2017; Marlowe & Bruns, 2020; Morrice et al., 2020). Research with young refugees shows that social media and smart devices have become essential means to resolve many challenges (Kutscher & Kreß, 2018). The aim of our article is to go beyond a utilitarian view of digital technologies and social media in the lives of migrant youth and show how digital actions can be extensions of bodily communications in relation to, for instance, locating the self within new cities, food, music, and religion. We introduce the concept of the migrant platformed body as a site of struggle for unity that brings past and present into continuous discussion in and through the uses of social media technologies.

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Section: Findings: Th E Ontological Existence Of the Migrant Platformed Bodymentioning

confidence: 69%

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Sefton‐Green²

2022

MedieKultur

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“…To arrive at the items used in our Q study, the interview and focus groups transcripts and observational notes from the preliminary research were first openly coded and inductively analyzed by the second author of this article, who drew on her expertise in children and youth’s lived media experience and learning ( Neag and Supa, 2020 ; Ramsey et al, 2022 ). Throughout the process, importantly, this researcher remained naïve to any existing reading experience constructs related to absorption ( Kuijpers et al, 2021 ; Kuiken et al, 2022 ), reading motivation ( Wigfield and Guthrie, 1997 ), or children’s reading ‘pleasures’ ( Wilhelm, 2016 ) as reviewed above.…”

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Children’s perspectives on being absorbed when reading fiction: A Q methodology study

Kuzmičová

Zezulkova²,

Nekola³

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Research in the intersections of literature, media, and psychology increasingly examines the absorbing story experiences of adult readers, typically relying on quantitative self-report questionnaires. Meanwhile, little work has been done to explore how being “lost in a book” is experienced by children, despite the phenomenon’s importance for literacy education. Such work requires tools that are more inductive and child-centered than questionnaires. We have conducted a Q methodology study with participants aged 9–12 (n = 28), exploring how it feels for them when the mind and body are attuned to a story and how different facets of absorption (e.g., mental imagery, emotional engagement) inform the experience. Participants numerically sorted 24 cards expressing inner states and expectations relating to book-length fiction reading and were subsequently interviewed regarding their sorting choices. The cards were generated inductively based on preliminary research (focus groups, individual interviews, observations). By-person factor analysis of the sortings combined with reflective thematic analysis of the post-sorting interviews revealed four distinct reader subjectivities, or perspectives: Growth, Confirmation, Attachment and Mental Shift. Crucially, the children in these groups differed as to prominent dimensions of absorption but also as to the overall place of reading in their inner and everyday lives. Based on the four perspectives, we demonstrate that children have varied ways of being absorbed when reading fiction, and reflect on the affordances of Q methodology as a suitable child-centered approach to studying the subjective experiences of reading.

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“…Witnessing narratives mediated by mobile platforms, for example, are found to help minoritized and stigmatized communities to confront and even transform the physical and symbolic immobility that hampers their everyday life (Witteborn, 2012). The mediated co-presence, however, not only brings the displaced migrants together where they are embraced by an intensified we-feelings (Neag & Supa, 2020). It is equally likely to bring disaligned communities and witness the affective tensions between connected groups and the clash of their respective emotion norms.…”

Section: Emotional Turn In Mobile Media Studiesmentioning

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(Im)mobility and performance of emotions: Chinese international students’ difficult journeys to home during the COVID-19 pandemic

Zhang

2022

Mobile Media & Communication

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This article examines mediated performances of emotions by Chinese international students in their transnational journeys returning to China during the COVID-19 pandemic with a focus on the role of mobile media in helping students cope with their cross-border (im)mobility and symbolic immobility. By thematically analyzing 36 self-representational videos produced by returning Chinese students on a burgeoning mobile media platform Douyin, we identify 5 overarching themes of emotional performance: fear, pride, gratitude, shame, and solidarity. We propose that mobile media has the potential to create a hybrid space that witnesses and elicits empathy for the hardship experienced by marginalized mobile groups during the global pandemic. Mobile media, by enabling simultaneous communication, amplifies the sensation of belonging in times of isolation and ambiguity and offers dialogic venues for disparate groups across geographical and socioemotional distances. Our findings suggest the vulnerability of mobile communities in the event of a global pandemic, and the affordances of mobile media in confronting and resolving such precarity. We call attention to the intersections of mobile communities and mobile media amid the global pandemic, particularlyon the experiences and performances of emotions in hybrid spaces.

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Emotional practices of unaccompanied refugee youth on social media

Cited by 18 publications

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