The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration

Smets, Kevin; Leurs, Koen; Georgiou, Myria; Witteborn, Saskia; Gajjala, Radhika

doi:10.4135/9781526476982

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“…It is estimated for instance that 68% of refugees living in urban centers have access to an internet‐enabled phone, with the vast majority prioritizing mobile ownership and connectivity as crucial for their safety (United Nations Higher Commissioner of Refugees, 2016). Academic responses to these trends have contributed greatly to the emergence of a new field of research called Digital Migration Studies (for an overview, see Leurs & Smets, 2018; Leurs & Ponzanesi, 2018; Smets, Leurs, Georgiou, Witteborn, & Gajjala, 2020). This field has been critical in shedding light on how ICTs and mobile technologies, in particular, are impacting refugees' lived experiences of displacement in light of the so‐called “European refugee crisis” in 2015 and beyond.…”

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Mobile communication and refugees: An analytical review of academic literature

Alencar

2020

Sociology Compass

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Over the past decade, an expanding literature has explored the ways in which refugees rely on mobile communication technologies to stay in touch with a wider community and to access relevant information and services in their new places. Nevertheless, challenges linked to (a lack of) digital literacy and accessibility among refugees, and associated risks of technology use can negatively affect their empowerment and participation in a “mediatized” society. In light of the mutually shaping processes emerging between technology and society, this article provides an overview of studies focusing on the relationship between mobile communication practices and refugee lives under different circumstances. Using the concept of affordances as an analytic tool, this article looks into ways in which existing studies address the possibilities and vulnerabilities of mobile communications, the social conditions, and the agency of refugees in engaging with mobile technologies in the different temporal and spatial dimensions of their migration trajectories. Future studies should explore more collective processes and the power dynamics involved in the appropriation of mobile technologies by different migration actors.

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Mobile communication and refugees: An analytical review of academic literature

Alencar

2020

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“…Hal ini mendorong Sundar dan Limperos (2013) untuk melahirkan model M-A-I-N sebagai perpanjangan dari teori penggunaan dan gratifikasi yang dirasa lebih cocok digunakan pada new media. Smets et al (2019) mendukung pemikiran Sundar dan Limperos ini, di mana mereka berpendapat bahwa pengaplikasian teori penggunaan dan gratifikasi dalam penelitian mengenai medium internet masih jauh dari sifat sempurna dan kurang mampu mengidentifikasi kegunaan serta kebutuhan pengguna media saat ini (p. 259).…”

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Model M-A-I-N dalam Mencari Pekerjaan: Studi pada Pengguna LinkedIn

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2021

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Dengan adanya teknologi digital, kegiatan manusia menjadi lebih mudah dilakukan, termasuk dalam mencari pekerjaan. Salah satu aplikasi yang marak digunakan dalam mencari pekerjaan adalah LinkedIn. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengukur aspek-aspek yang mendasari penggunaan LinkedIn sebagai media untuk mencari pekerjaan dengan model M-A-I-N. Penelitian ini mengaplikasikan paradigma positivistik, pendekatan kuantitatif, dan menggunakan kuesioner daring sebagai instrumen untuk memperoleh data penelitian. Prinsip accidental diterapkan pada penarikan sampel. Hasil penelitian yang menghimpun 103 jawaban responden menunjukkan bahwa aspek agency merupakan motif yang paling kuat dalam mendasari para pengguna LinkedIn di Indonesia. Hal ini ditunjukkan dengan nilai mean of total paling besar yang dimilikinya (4,4059). Mayoritas responden mengakui bahwa mereka dapat menciptakan koneksi dengan banyak orang lewat LinkedIn.Digital technology is increasingly embedded in every aspect of human life. Hence, human activities have become more manageable with digital technology, including finding work. Today's society can find a job with just the touch of a finger. One of the applications that are widely used in finding employment is LinkedIn. This study aims to measure the aspects that underlie the use of LinkedIn as a medium to find work with the M-A-I-N model. This study applies a positivistic paradigm, a quantitative approach and uses an online questionnaire as an instrument to obtain research data. The accidental principle is applied to sampling. The study results, which collected 103 respondents' answers, show that the agency aspect is the strongest motive underpinning LinkedIn users in Indonesia. This is indicated by the highest mean of total value (4.4059). The majority of respondents admit that they can connect with many people through LinkedIn.

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“…Anthropological studies have provided rich descriptions of the human experience of belonging and the sense of place in dislocation, migration and diaspora. Such endeavours have developed our understanding of place, revealing the spatiality of social life (e.g., Constable, 1999;Dominy, 2000;Semts et al, 2019). On the other hand, ethnographies based on virtual communities such as Second life (Boellstorff, 2008) and Cibervalle (Greschke, 2012) have raised the question of "is there a home in cyberspace?"…”

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The digital Dasein of Chinese Rural Migrants

Wang

2020

Sociol. Antropol.

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This paper sets out to acknowledge the radical possibilities in the way in which human existence is perceived and constructed in the digital age. A 15-month ethnography, focused on the use of social media among Chinese factory workers, is employed to create a conversation with philosophical thoughts on human existence and anthropological thoughts on objectification. Social media is more than a form of communication, or a technology, that facilitates the connection between different locations. By exploring the three layers of existential experience of Chinese rural migrants in the context of ubiquitous social media use, this paper suggests that we might start to consider the degree to which digital media is itself a place in which people actually live and feel at home. The acknowledgement of such place-making via the digital allows us to re-think the relationship between the materiality and digital possibilities for human existence and further explore the fundamental process of objectification through the lens of digital anthropology.

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The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration

Cited by 37 publications

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Mobile communication and refugees: An analytical review of academic literature

Mobile communication and refugees: An analytical review of academic literature

Model M-A-I-N dalam Mencari Pekerjaan: Studi pada Pengguna LinkedIn

The digital Dasein of Chinese Rural Migrants

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