Friend orFreund: Social Media and Transnational Connections in Berlin

Rethinking sociocultural notions of learning in the digital era: Understanding the affordances of networked platforms

“…This multidimensionality draws attention not only to the technical aspects of connectivity but also to how the content is organised and circulated and how boundaries between aspects or variables cross or overlap. Kraemer (2014) further complicates the issue of boundaries of geographical scales and social contexts. She shows that the networked spaces and networking practices are of multiple scales that operate simultaneously, while she notes that geographical terms like local, national or global are being reconstructed by everyday online practices.…”

“…She shows that the networked spaces and networking practices are of multiple scales that operate simultaneously, while she notes that geographical terms like local, national or global are being reconstructed by everyday online practices. People's participation in multiple networks on social media transforms how they define and experience the local, regional or the transnational as spatial scales (Kraemer, 2014). boyd (2010) adds to these complications by pointing to the sometimes-unpredictable route that social media content takes and to how content may scale up unexpectedly in networks and suddenly receive great, sometimes unpredicted or unwanted, attention.…”

Doing Digital Migration Studies:

“…More recently, a growing body of literature is examining the life of mobile and transient migrants (Gomes, 2017;Lee, 2020), and the concept of "digital place-making" (Halegoua, 2020;Halegoua & Polson, 2021;Hjorth, 2012;Wilken & Goggin, 2012;Fast et al, 2018), viewed as the "use of digital media to create a sense of place for oneself and/or others" (Halegoua & Polson, 2021, p. 574) within the context of mobility and migration. Other research has specifically examined social media usage and the making of place among mobile middleclass professionals (Polson, 2015;Kraemer, 2014;. And in 2021, the Routledge Handbook to Mobile Socialities (Hill et al, 2021) demarcated a new area of research that foregrounds the relation between mobile media, mobility and sociality.…”