Identity in Mediated Contexts of Transnationalism and Mobility

“I would rather be informed than misinformed”: critical conversations supporting transnational religious identity across time and space

“…Because Ilhan felt more limited by topics, she could discuss with family members and friends in her local context, her participation in religious discourse online (Cheong and Ess, 2012) with transnational peers became an important space to clarify and confirm the positions she wished to assert in alignment with her developing religious practices. Through Twitter and other social media applications, Ilhan gained access to broader religious conversations (Lövheim, 2013) about topics of personal importance (Lam and Smirnov, 2017). She engaged in debates about the hijab and potential reasons behind the “Muslim Ban” to dialog and exchange ideas with classmates and online actors including those who held different interpretations (Díez Bosch et al , 2017).…”

“…Transnational youth identity development across mediated spaces Lam and Smirnov's (2017) metasynthesis of research from the 1990s to the present highlights the affordances of digital media in support of transnational youths' development of their identifications and sense of self across communities. Specifically, mobility and transnational framing aligns with the understanding that immigration is not only a movement from one space to another but also constitutes a new sense of identification and belonging (Dolby and Rizvi, 2008).…”

Digital Literacies in TESOL: Mapping Out the Terrain

“…To what extent does unequal access to resources shape contrasting digital literacies? While both questions are concerned with how learners develop digital practices, the first positions learners as able to create their own pathways, express their identities and gain membership in different communities (Lam & Smirnov, 2017). The second recognizes that access to material, cultural, and social resources is unequal, shaping different dispositions toward technology (Darvin, 2018a), unequal opportunities for language learning (Lemphane & Prinsloo, 2014; Prinsloo & Rowsell, 2012), and contrasting investment in digital literacy practices (Darvin & Norton, 2015).…”

Cultivating Virtual Communities of Care: Reflections on Community-Based Research in Times of Sociopolitical Precarity

“…Of particular interest for this article is the role of out-of-school digital literacies that create openings for communicating across different languages, cultures, and geographies (Hull & Stornaiuolo, 2014); multimodal composing and storytelling (Vasudevan, 2010); and immigrant families' digital transnational practices (Compton-Lilly et al, 2019). We look at digital practices as part of collective inquiry because digital literacies are ubiquitous in transnational youth's lives, and as Lam and Smirnov (2017) note, "youth of migrant backgrounds use digital and online media to construct networks and affiliations with diverse cultural and language practices" (p. 1).…”