Scalable co-presence: WhatsApp and the mediation of personal relationships during the COVID-19 lockdown

E Costa, M Esteve-Del-Valle… - Social Media+ …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article sheds light on how adults in Barcelona (ES), Groningen (NL), and Milan (IT)
utilized WhatsApp to compensate for the lack of face-to-face interactions and to fight social …

Migrancy and digital mediations of emotion

D Alinejad, S Ponzanesi - International Journal of Cultural …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This collection brings together key themes that integrate the scholarship on migration, digital
media, and emotion. Drawing from a variety of conceptual, theoretical, and methodological …

Techno-emotional mediations of transnational intimacy: Social media and care relations in long-distance Romanian families

D Alinejad - Media, Culture & Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The transnational circulation of intimate care is increasingly mediated by digital
communications. Research conceptualizing long-distance emotional intimacy in terms of …

[PDF][PDF] Diasporic cosmopolitanism and digital (dis) connectivity among Turkish women in Rome

C Minchilli - Media and Communication, 2024 - cogitatiopress.com
This study advances the field of disconnection studies by examining how digital (dis)
connective practices intersect with diasporic identity construction and the articulation of …

Reimagining the homeland: diasporic belonging among Turkish and Kurdish second generations in Italy

G Ince-Beqo, M Ambrosini - International Review of Sociology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This paper analyzes the experiences of children of immigrants coming to Italy from Turkey. It
does so by using in-depth interviews and looking at how they conceptualize their sense of …

From society to cyberspace: contentions with authoritarianism amongst second-generation Kurdish students in London

S Moftizadeh - Globalizations, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Though diasporas no longer reside in their homelands, the proliferation of globalization and
movement, as well as the exponentially increasing reach of the Internet has meant that the …

Long-term holistic ethnography for new digital worlds

E Costa - Ethnography, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The article contributes to ongoing conversations on digital ethnography as a methodological
approach that in the last two decades has gained popularity across a large variety of …

The Quagmire of Ideologies: An Ethnography of Kurdish Virtual Life-World on Facebook

N Mohammadi, M Kianpour - Journal of Intercultural Studies, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Using critical virtual ethnography, this article deals with the virtual life-world of Iranian Kurds
on Facebook. We used a Constructivist grounded theory approach (as a data analysis …

Embodied technology use:: Unaccompanied refugee youth and the migrant platformed body

A Neag, J Sefton-Green - 2021 - dro.deakin.edu.au
For unaccompanied refugee youth, technology occupies a central role in their lives. It helps
them when crossing countries, finding a shelter, and accessing education, or even in …

Young Venezuelans' experiences of migration on YouTube: Self-mediatization, consumerism and digital settlements

H Levy - Journal of Global Diaspora & Media, 2023 - intellectdiscover.com
Venezuela's displacement crisis has received extensive media coverage around the world.
COVID-19 has exacerbated dramatic stories of border closures and increased prejudice …