Narratives of Belonging in the Digital Diaspora: Corpus Approaches to a Cultural Concept

Heyd, Theresa

doi:10.1515/opli-2016-0013

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“…It explores the resemiotized contexts and chronotopic properties that are indicative of such narratives. In this regard, the notion of "digital diaspora" as an emerging phenomenon of diasporic and transnational communication (Heyd 2016) is central to the current discussion. Data collection started in September 2021 and continued until September 2022.…”

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confidence: 99%

Translocalizing the space of old Nubia in digital narrative: Resemiotized chronotopes as markers of identity

Fawzy

2023

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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Digitality is closely related to and expressed within analogicity, offering a sense of intersectional continuity between the online and offline realms. However, this poses a theoretical and conceptual challenge, particularly when addressing the heterogenous notion of contemporary diaspora as a phenomenon of online/offline and past/present co-constituency. To this end, this article advances a semio-chronotopic approach to reclaiming indigenous identities. It aims at decentring the concept of spatial dispersal by situating diaspora within a temporal continuum. The article investigates the Nubian Facebook* page Al Nuba Café in this concern. Deployment of the notion of resemiotization enables us to analyse narrative networks of Nubian diaspora as mediatized through digital space. It is found that Nubian online narrative shows a chronotopic condition of coeval alignment in which the two identity events before and after the displacement are kept conflated. The posts are found to blur the boundaries between the spatiotemporal there-and-then of the story and of the here-and-now of the storytelling world. The study concludes that Nubian digital tellings of diaspora are organized within a continuum of specific chronotopes that vacillate between past and present, spatial yearning and temporal nostalgia, statehood and diaspora, roots and routes, delineating an umbrella chronotope of the changing same. This semio-chronotopic conceptualisation of Nubian diaspora acknowledges the centrality of translocal temporality in its manifestation. Accordingly, the study argues that while space is considered the primary measure of diaspora in the analogue contexts, digital context emphasizes a rather the temporal dimension which dynamically participates in the reproduction of translocal diaspora experiences.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Translocalizing the space of old Nubia in digital narrative: Resemiotized chronotopes as markers of identity

Fawzy

2023

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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“…The results obtained show that vloggers have universal feelings like fears and culturally specific ones like mask-wearing related while inviting their viewers to construct their emotional experience revealing a new form of migrant identity and its role in delivering healthrelated information in this crisis. Moreover, Heyd (2016) defines an important notion for understanding digital diaspora: narratives of belonging. The author argues that this concept brings together two evocative notions: storytelling "as a fundamental human activity and linguistic act of identity" and belonging "as a category that is relevant to all explorations to all human experience in societies marked by globalization and mobility".…”

Section: Disinformation and Diaspora Related Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The author argues that this concept brings together two evocative notions: storytelling "as a fundamental human activity and linguistic act of identity" and belonging "as a category that is relevant to all explorations to all human experience in societies marked by globalization and mobility". For this notion, Heyd (2016) identifies four criteria when analyzing diaspora text: personal narratives, i.e., reflecting an episode that is personalized and related to a lived individual experience, account of events, reference to components embedded in the notion of belonging, and evaluation through, e.g., critical positioning towards narrated events. Kozachenko (2018) Based on the comprehensive review conducted in this research it can be concluded that while different dimensions of the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine are tackled through different studies, e.g., annexation of Crimea, Euromaidan, and current events, still limited studies are dedicated to understanding diaspora's role in relation to disinformation propagation in social media.…”

Section: Disinformation and Diaspora Related Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analyzing the Role of Ukrainian and Russian Diaspora in Disinformation Campaigns

Maathuis

Ridder

Stuurman

2023

ECSM

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Recent digital technological developments facilitate the translation, empowerment, and extension of expressing individual and collective ideas, beliefs, and attitudes towards specific concepts and events through different social platforms. In this complex arena, social media manipulation campaigns and corresponding mechanisms like disinformation and misinformation are used through techniques like deep fakes and fake news for, e.g., altering existing information and spreading manufactured information to {targeted, diverse} audiences or producing polarization among communities and users. Nevertheless, academic and practitioner efforts to capture, control, and limit social manipulation techniques exist in the form of strategies and policies based on human intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, or a combination thereof. However, such mechanisms and consonant techniques advance in adaptivity and complexity and can reach and impact broader communities. On this behalf, and especially in conjunction with the ongoing events surrounding the ongoing war in Ukraine, increased attention and dedication is shown to both current and recent events surrounding this conflict, e.g., Crimea’s annexation and the MH17 crash in 2014. Such events characterize old battles of ongoing conflicts that could teach important lessons on understanding the role and involvement of Russian and Ukrainian diaspora communities in corresponding social manipulation discourses in social platforms like Twitter and Facebook. To tackle this, multidisciplinary research is conducted using the Design Science Research methodology following the Data Science approach building a series of Machine Learning models. Accordingly, this research aims to build and bring social awareness and resilience to both users and social media policy decision-makers on the role, involvement, and implications of diaspora digital communities in conflicts.

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“…Words and phrases that were used as synonyms for dusha included: internal contradiction and contradictory things, life, hope, conscience, sincerity, music, Russian language, intuition, fluency in culture and habits, interest, the unconscious, friendship, love, compassion and kindness (Pesmen 2000: 311-312). Words or concepts can play a role in narrating and constructing belonging (Heyd 2016), and when this is done in a specific place, the use of a word speaks not only about that place itself, but also about how something might be missing from the surrounding society.…”

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The Role of Atmosphere in Negotiations of Groupness: A Study of a Meeting Place for Older Russian-speaking Migrants

Asikainen

2021

Journal of Intercultural Studies

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While existing literature on third-sector support for ageing migrants shows that social clubs can be a vital source of social support, what remains unclear is how these positive outcomes are attained on an interactional level. Drawing on fieldwork conducted over the course of one year in a meeting place for older Russian-speaking migrants in the capital region of Finland, this paper adopts a processual approach to examine how a sense of groupness is negotiated in the meeting place. The attendees of the meeting place comprise of different nationalities and backgrounds, who mainly share age and Russian language. This heterogeneity creates a situation where the attendees, together with the organisers, negotiate a sense of groupness with the category of 'Russian-speaking'. I argue that such a sense of groupness is reached by drawing from shared traits of culturality, while excluding aspects that could cause conflicts. The paper further contributes to the literature on groupness by analysing what role atmosphere plays in attaining a sense of groupness, and argues that the notion of atmosphere is important to take into consideration when thinking how different places can support ageing and wellbeing.

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Narratives of Belonging in the Digital Diaspora: Corpus Approaches to a Cultural Concept

Cited by 24 publications

References 10 publications

Translocalizing the space of old Nubia in digital narrative: Resemiotized chronotopes as markers of identity

Translocalizing the space of old Nubia in digital narrative: Resemiotized chronotopes as markers of identity

Analyzing the Role of Ukrainian and Russian Diaspora in Disinformation Campaigns

The Role of Atmosphere in Negotiations of Groupness: A Study of a Meeting Place for Older Russian-speaking Migrants

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