Narrating Euro‐African Life in Digital Space

Where is the Field? The Experience of Migration Viewed through the Prism of Ethnographic Fieldwork

“…Indeed, we find that religious groups offer considerable assistance to new members in the resettlement process, much as Nancy Foner and Richard Alba have noted. 75 We emphasise that the strength of the sociality of religious groups and the efficacy of the social and material help they give members, particularly new immigrants, cannot be detached from the religious resources they provide. In other words, the strength of these ties and resources derives from the fact that religion provides the group's members with a moral community, one of trust, deriving from a shared vision of the world and relationship with the sacred.…”

“…In my case, Skype was a more suitable way of interviewing participants than multi-sited ethnography, for example, as the selection of participants did not have to be limited to those who happened to live in a location that I could visit. 74 The interviewees were selected from among the survey participants with the aim of gathering a purposive sample 75 that would be as diverse as possible. I examined this diversity in terms of migration motivation, year of mobility, educational background, field of study, career, country of residence, life situation and the kinds of positive and negative labour market experiences they wrote about in the open-ended questions of the survey.…”

“…One would be some of the stories collected as part of a BBC-sponsored project called Capture Wales. 75 Moreover, this method can lead to people sharing (and perhaps communicating reactions to) each other's stories on the World Wide Web. As the digital storytelling activist and theorist Joe Lambert reminds us, telling stories can be transformative in the sense that they can provoke in listeners emotional reactions and new ways of thinking about their own lives.…”

Visual narratives in digital books : adapting the Chinese novel Journey to the West for culturally diverse audiences

“…In particular, how might the local authors/storytellers satisfy their diverse readership of the Internet with a global appeal, at the same time present their local traditions? Helff and Woletz (2009) reflect on this cross-cultural aspects of digital storytelling and how globalisation is reflected in the narratives. Therefore, the stories present the author's backgrounds as well as their cultural experiences and social influences.…”