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Migrants' information practices and use of social media in Ireland : networks and community

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Komito, Lee 
Bates, Jessica 
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2861
Date Issued
10 February 2011
Date Available
16T12:21:23Z March 2011
Abstract
Migrants, having left their home society and community, often depend on electronic modes of communication to maintain contacts with distant friends and relations. Their practices illustrate the affordances provided by social media when face to face communication is not available. This paper describes the information and communication practices of Polish and Filipino nationals in Ireland, based on interviews with over sixty-five migrants in 2009. Migrants display increased dependence on the Internet as an information source and use various electronic media to maintain significant contacts with friends and relations in their home societies. Social media (including Web 2.0) practices have an impact on long distance relations that previous technologies have not had, due to differences in the way these technologies are utilized. Social media usage is a passive monitoring that complements the active communication of first generation technologies; this monitoring creates a background awareness and presence in terms of which active communication takes place, which facilitates bonding as well as bridging capital. This enables resilient and durable transnational links, while also facilitating greater mobility for migrants.
Sponsorship
Not applicable
Other Sponsorship
Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Type of Material
Conference Publication
Publisher
ACM
Copyright (Published Version)
2011 ACM
Keywords
  • Migration

  • Virtual community

  • Social media

  • Social capital

Subject – LCSH
Social media
Social integration
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft (Sociology)
Information behavior
Immigrants--Effect of technological innovations on
Polish--Ireland
Filipinos--Ireland
DOI
10.1145/1940761.1940801
Web versions
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1940761.1940801
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
Part of
Proceedings of the 2011 iConference
Description
Presented at iConference 2011, February 8-11, 2011, Seattle, WA, USA
ISBN
978-1-4503-0121-3
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0/
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