News from the Levant: A qualitative research on the role of social media in Syrian diaspora

A Miconi - Social Media+ Society, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The Syrian emergency, with around 6.7 million people leaving the country, is considered the
biggest refugee crisis since the end of World War II. The impact of social media on both the …

Refugee Journalist Phenomenon as a Consequence of Migration and Refugee Crises: The Role of Social Media in Transferring Refugees’ Role from †œHas …

Y Aldamen - Studies in Media and Communication, 2023 - ideas.repec.org
This study examines the impact of using social media by Syrian refugees, focusing on the
shift from receiving messages to sharing content and news related to the Syrian crisis. Using …

Social media use in the diaspora: The case of Syrians in Italy

A Al-Rawi, S Fahmy - Diaspora and media in Europe: Migration, identity …, 2018 - Springer
This study empirically examines how the Syrian community in Italy engages with its
homeland and receiving country on social media. The work involves the analysis of over …

Asylum-related migrants' social-media use, mobility decisions, and resilience

M Merisalo, JS Jauhiainen - Journal of Immigrant & Refugee …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The article examines asylum-related migrants' social-media use along their asylum
journeys. In total, 2,454 migrants from 37 countries answered a semistructured survey …

Social representations of social media users toward Syrian refugees In Turkey

F ÖZDEMİR, B Öner Özkan - 2016 - dspace.metu.edu.tr
While the Syrian refugees crisis has increasingly continued its effect in both Turkey and
other neighboring countries and European countries for more than five years, refugees do …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding social media dependency, and uses and gratifications as a communication system in the migration era: Syrian refugees in host countries as a …

Y Aldamen - Social Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Through the theoretical frameworks of the media system dependency model and uses and
gratifications theory, this study examined the uses of social media by Syrian refugees in …

Smart refugees: How Syrian asylum migrants use social media information in migration decision-making

R Dekker, G Engbersen, J Klaver… - Social Media+ …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Social media are increasingly popular channels of information on which migrants base their
decisions on whether to migrate and the destinations where to settle. While social media …

[PDF][PDF] Media Use During Escape. A Contribution to Refugees' Collective Agency

M Ullrich - Spheres: Journal for Digital Cultures, 2017 - mediarep.org
The BILD blamed Merkel for the tweet in their article. There was a widely shared belief that
the spread of 'welcoming'information through social media was one of the main reasons why …

Being at home on social media: Online place-making among the Kurds in Turkey and rural migrants in China

E Costa, X Wang - The SAGE handbook of media and migration, 2019 - torrossa.com
The role that social media have in the everyday life of migrant and diasporic populations has
been documented in a growing corpus of literature in anthropology, media and …

Social media responses of the Turkish diaspora to protests in Turkey: The impact of Gezi on attitude and behavioural change

RI Giglou, L d'Haenens, C Ogan - … and media in Europe: Migration, identity …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract The Gezi protests in Turkey in May 2013 involved the European diaspora as well as
the Turkish population in Turkey. Ethnic minorities whose roots were in Turkey may have felt …