Migration, Medien und Diaspora

Hepp, Andreas; Bozdağ, Çiğdem; Sūna, Laura

doi:10.1007/978-3-531-92828-9_2

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“…These multiple forms of presence leave traces in the analog and virtual world that provide a rich ground for understanding migration trajectories and migrant networks if combined together (Diminescu and Loveluck, 2014). In addition, Georgiou (2005, 2013) and Hepp, Bozdag, and Suna (2011) show how diasporic minority groups use media in complex ways that feedback how they communicate interest, make claims, and mobilize identities. With an emphasis on youth digital diasporas, Leurs and Ponzanesi (2011) develop this argument further.…”

Section: Refugees and Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Best, the Worst, and the Hardest to Find: How People, Mobiles, and Social Media Connect Migrants In(to) Europe

Borkert

Fisher

Yafi

2018

Social Media + Society

108

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For displaced people, migrating into Europe has highly complex information needs about the journey and destination. Each new need presents problems of where to seek information, how to trust or distrust information, and financial and other costs. The outcomes of receiving poor or false information can cause bodily harm or death, loss of family, or financial ruin. We aim to make two major contributions: First, provide rich insights into digital literacy, information needs, and strategies among Syrian and Iraqi refugees who entered Europe in 2015, a topic rarely dealt with in the literature. Second, we seek to change the dominant perspective on migrants and refugees as passive victims of international events and policies by showing their capacities and skills to navigate the complex landscape of information and border regimes en route to Europe. Building on research at Za’atari refugee camp (Jordan), we surveyed 83 Arab refugees in two centers in Berlin. Analyses address refugees’ temporal information worlds, focusing on the importance and difficulty in finding specific information, how migrants identify mis- and disinformation, and the roles of information and technology mediaries. Findings illustrate the digital capacities refugees employ during and after their journey to Europe; they show social support via social media and highlight the need for a radical shift in thinking about and researching migration in the digital age.

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Section: Refugees and Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Best, the Worst, and the Hardest to Find: How People, Mobiles, and Social Media Connect Migrants In(to) Europe

Borkert

Fisher

Yafi

2018

Social Media + Society

108

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“…The Boris Nemtsov Foundation (2016) also surveyed 606 Russian Germans about their media use to understand better their experience of integration but focused only on the language of the media, without asking about the specific media outlets and their political leaning. Hepp et al (2011) conducted 30 semi-structured interviews with the members of Russian diaspora in Germany to explore how cultural identities influence media choices and identified three related patterns of media choices: origin-country-oriented, ethno-oriented and world-oriented. Hepp et al (2011) criticized exsisting studies on migrants and media as often merely assessing if migrants' media choices contribute to their integration or segregation (Hepp et al, 2011: 250).…”

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Motivated by political beliefs, not only by language: How Russian speakers in Germany compose their transnational news repertoires

Ryzhova

2022

Journalism

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Extant research in media and migration has been largely apolitical, focusing on how migrants use media to culturally connect with their homeland and keep their family ties. However, in times of increasing international conflicts and polarisation, such as the years leading up to the Russia's war against Ukraine in 2022, migrant audiences find themselves in a situation when the coverage of national and international politics in the homeland and host country media can differ dramatically. Against this backdrop, this study investigated how Russian speakers living in Germany create and navigate their transnational news repertoires. Grounded in 42 semi-structured interviews with the Russian speakers of the 1 and 1.5 generations in Germany, conducted between May and October 2021, this article identifies three types of transnational news repertoires: (1) politically-motivated news repertoire, (2) truth seeking-motivated news repertoire and (3) situation-motivated news repertoire. The results show that all the news repertoires of all participants are transnational. I argue that in the context of international conflict, not only language but also the participants' political beliefs play an essential role in their news choice. Future research on migrants in political communication should distinguish research not only along with the language of the media outlets but also along with the political ideologies that they project.

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“…Building on network analysis, Andreas Hepp also conducted a large-scale project in Germany on the 'Integration and segregation potential of digital media', studying how Internet, mobile phones and social websites enable Turkish, Russian and Moroccan migrants to inhabit different diasporas and connect transnationally with different scales of intensity (Hepp et al 2011). See also Cigdem Bozdag, who participated in this project, on the 'mediatization of ethnicity' and 'cultural thickening' among diasporic communities in their everyday life, whose article in this issue is already discussed above.…”

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On digital crossings in Europe

Ponzanesi

Leurs

2014

Crossings: Journal of Migration &Amp; Culture

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‘On digital crossings in Europe’ explores the entanglements of digital media and migration beyond the national and mono-ethnic focus. We argue how borders, identity and affectivity have been destabilized and reconfigured through medium-specific technological affordances, opting for a comparative and postcolonial framework that focuses on diversity in conjunction with cosmopolitan aspirations. Internet applications make it possible to sustain new forms of diaspora and networks, which operate within and beyond Europe, making issues of ethnicity, nationality, race and class not obsolete but transformed. It is therefore important and timely to analyse how these reconfigurations take place and affect everyday life. Using a critical approach to digital tools that avoids utopian notions of connectivity and borderlessness, this article highlights the dyssymmetries and tensions produced by the ubiquitousness of digital connectivity. It further introduces the different contributions to the special issue, making connections and tracing relations among themes and methods and sketching main patterns for further research. It also offers a panorama of other related studies and projects in the field, which partake in a critical reassessment of the enabling power of digital media and their divisive implications for new forms of surveillance, online racism and ‘economic’ inequality, which we gather under the heading of postcolonial digital humanities.

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Migration, Medien und Diaspora

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The Best, the Worst, and the Hardest to Find: How People, Mobiles, and Social Media Connect Migrants In(to) Europe

The Best, the Worst, and the Hardest to Find: How People, Mobiles, and Social Media Connect Migrants In(to) Europe

Motivated by political beliefs, not only by language: How Russian speakers in Germany compose their transnational news repertoires

On digital crossings in Europe

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