The geographies of difference in conflating digital and offline spaces of encounter: Migrant professionals' throwntogetherness in Singapore

Bork-Hüffer, Tabea; Yeoh, Brenda S. A.

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.09.002

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“…Still, Plowman (2016, 191) posits that we need a 'more fluid, emergent and multiscale understanding of context without boundaries [that] enables us to think differently about the relationships between practices, people and things'. In line, in this article, we choose as well as refine the cON/FFlating spaces concept developed by Bork-Hüffer and Yeoh (2017). In face of our empirical findings, we perceive the above-named datafied and code/space concepts as either too affects-focused or too techno-centric when compared to the more open conceptualisation of cON/FFlating spaces.…”

Section: Con/fflating Spaces In Young People's Livesmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Also, we emphasise the relationality of these elements, their historicities as well as the role of power and (techno-)politics in the emergence of cON/FFlating spaces (cf. Massey 2005;Kurban, Peña-López, and Haberer 2016;Bork-Hüffer and Yeoh 2017). By employing the active form (cON/FFlating space) rather than its passive counter piece (cON/FFlated space), Bork-Hüffer and Yeoh (2017) stress the need to reflect and embrace the processual dimension and dynamics in these entangled spaces.…”

Section: Con/fflating Spaces In Young People's Livesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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(Cyber)Bullying in schools – when bullying stretches across cON/FFlating spaces

Bork-Hüffer

Mahlknecht

Kaufmann

2020

Children's Geographies

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This article posits that analyses of (cyber)bullying among digitally connected young people need to explore the interdependences, intersections and cON/FFlation of bullying in ONline and OFFline spaces. It combines digital geographers' works on relationalities between digital and offline spaces with studies on children's and young people's geographies and digitization as well as with interdisciplinary work on cyberbullying and traditional bullying in the school context. Drawing on narratives written by young people in Austria, the article lets participants speak through their own voices. There is an urgent need for disparate research examining either or both traditional and cyberbullying, to take note not only of each of their inimitable spatialities, but also their intersections. Through taking a perspective of cON/FFlating spaces we seek to produce a better understanding of the cON/FFlating nature and spaces of bullying in the digital era and to deepen the conceptualization of these interlinked and entangled socio-material-technological spaces.

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Section: Con/fflating Spaces In Young People's Livesmentioning

confidence: 95%

Section: Con/fflating Spaces In Young People's Livesmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Cyber)Bullying in schools – when bullying stretches across cON/FFlating spaces

Bork-Hüffer

Mahlknecht

Kaufmann

2020

Children's Geographies

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“…Azwa's change of visa status is mobilised by the mundane artefacts and objects that she uses translation services for (figure 2(c)), pointing to the hidden or taken for granted nature of processes involved in shaping migrant mobilities (Bork-Hüffer & Yeoh, 2017). Her account further demonstrates key human interventions of planning, strategy, and thinking 'outside the box' in making decisions around regulatory requirements.…”

Section: Regulatory Framework and Migrant Subjectivitiesmentioning

confidence: 95%

‘Mapping Migrancies’: A discursive mapping approach to analyse lived experiences of skilled migration infrastructures

Khan¹

2021

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The recent ‘infrastructural turn’ in migration studies has provided valuable insights into the emergence and functions of different aspects of migration infrastructure such as the commercial migration industry, social networks, and technological innovations (Xiang and Lindquist 2014). The focus of current scholarship, however, has been on how these infrastructures mobilise migrants, predominantly across irregular migration pathways. There remains a gap in exploring infrastructures of formal migration, and their entanglements with migrants’ own subjectivities. This paper reports on a research project that explores this gap by arguing for a new research agenda on migration infrastructure. The study uses a ‘discursive mapping’ approach involving in-depth interviews and mind-maps sketched by 27 research participants based in Australia and Canada as they narrated their migration experience. This paper draws upon the experiences of three migrants to illuminate how their journeys are intertwined with and shaped by migration infrastructures - particularly media and regulatory processes. By (re)centring the infrastructural focus on migrants’ own agencies, desires, and life-courses, this study presents nuanced understandings of the lived experience of skilled migration infrastructures.

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“…To start with, under the label mediated practices , this article emphasises that connective media platforms co‐constitute work practices. This happens indirectly when everyday perceptions and experiences are seamlessly shaped by representations on connective media platforms (Pink 2012; Leszczynski 2015; Bork‐Hüffer & Yeoh 2017). For instance, Bork‐Hüffer and Yeoh (2017) examine how professional migrants in Singapore encounter their host society in a multiplicity of physical and virtual places.…”

Section: Towards Creative Geographies Of Mediationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This happens indirectly when everyday perceptions and experiences are seamlessly shaped by representations on connective media platforms (Pink 2012; Leszczynski 2015; Bork‐Hüffer & Yeoh 2017). For instance, Bork‐Hüffer and Yeoh (2017) examine how professional migrants in Singapore encounter their host society in a multiplicity of physical and virtual places. They highlight that physical encounters in everyday urban life and digitally mediated encounters on online forums or on connective media platforms such as YouTube shape the perception of the host community jointly.…”

Section: Towards Creative Geographies Of Mediationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Workspaces of Mediation: How Digital Platforms Shape Practices, Spaces and Places of Creative Work

Repenning

2022

Tijd voor Econ & Soc Geog

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This paper investigates how online platforms co‐construct spatialities of fashion design. Advancing the notion of workspaces of mediation, the article interlinks research on the geographies of creative work with debates on digital geography. It demonstrates that humans, online platforms, and spatiality are interrelated and come together in the constitution of everyday spatial encounters and experiences. Applying methods from digital ethnography, in‐depth interviews, on/offline participant observations, and an analysis of Instagram accounts were conducted. The article demonstrates that Instagram has become a powerful non‐human actor that reconfigures (i) practices, (ii) spaces, and (iii) places of work. With the notion of workspaces of mediation, the paper argues that spaces of work must go beyond concepts of hybrid space and beyond the geotag. Instead, mediated workspaces are constituted as a complex entanglement of online and offline socio‐spatial relations and practices.

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The geographies of difference in conflating digital and offline spaces of encounter: Migrant professionals' throwntogetherness in Singapore

Cited by 23 publications

References 81 publications

(Cyber)Bullying in schools – when bullying stretches across cON/FFlating spaces

(Cyber)Bullying in schools – when bullying stretches across cON/FFlating spaces

‘Mapping Migrancies’: A discursive mapping approach to analyse lived experiences of skilled migration infrastructures

Workspaces of Mediation: How Digital Platforms Shape Practices, Spaces and Places of Creative Work

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