The Asia-Pacific in the age of transnational mobility : the search for community and identity on and through social media / edited by Catherine Gomes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gomes, Catherine Jean, editor.

Series:

Anthem Southeast Asian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Online social networks--Asia--Case studies.

Online social networks.

Online social networks--Pacific Area--Case studies.

Social media--Asia--Case studies.

Social media.

Social media--Pacific Area--Case studies.

Transnationalism--Social aspects--Asia--Case studies.

Transnationalism.

Transnationalism--Social aspects--Pacific Area--Case studies.

Social aspects.

Pacific Area.

Asia.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

ix, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2016.

Summary:

The growing mobility of people within and into the Asia-Pacific region has created environment of increasing diversity as nations become hosts to both permanent and temporary multicultural societies. How do we begin to gauge the impact of mobility and multiculturalism on individuals and groups in this diverse region today? The authors of The Asia-Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility turn to social media as a tool of inquiry to map how mobile subjects and minorities articulate their sense of community and identity. They see social media as a platform that allows users to document and express their individual and collective identities, sometimes in restrictive communication environments, while providing a sense of belonging and agency. The authors presents original empirical work that attempts to help readers understand how mobile subjects who circulate in the Asia-Pacific create a sense of community for themselves and articulate their ethnic, ideological and national identities. Book jacket.

Contents:

Female Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong : a case study of advocacy through Facebook and the story of Erwiana Sulistyaningsih / Panizza Allmark and Irfan Wahyudi

Media and mobilities in Australia : a case study of Southeast Asian international students' media use for well-being / Larissa Hjorth and Joshua Wong

Connecting and re-connecting with Vietnam : migration, Vietnamese overseas communities and social media / Cate Gribble and Ly Thi Tran

Liking it, not loving it : international students in Singapore and their navigation of everyday life in transience / Catherine Gomes

Is "Allah just for Muslims"? : religion, indigenization and boundaries in Malaysia / Susan Leong

Ethnic minorities in the multi-ethnic heritage in Melaka : reconstructing Dutch Eurasian and Chitty Melaka identites through Facebook / Loo Hong-Chuang and Floris Müller

Nostalgia and memory : remembering the Malayan communist revolution in the online age / Jason Sze-Chieh Ng

New and traditional media in Malaysia : conflicting choices for seeeking useful and trusted information in everyday life / Sandra Harchard.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Container of: Allmark, Panizza. Female Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong.

ISBN:

9781783085927

1783085924

OCLC:

958585420

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