Digital diaspora : an overview of the research areas of migration and new media through a narrative literature review
Andersson, Kerstin B. (2019). Digital diaspora : an overview of the research areas of migration and new media through a narrative literature review. Human Technology, 15 (2), 142-180. doi:10.17011/ht/urn.201906123154
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© 2019 Kerstin B. Andersson and the Open Science Centre, University of Jyväskylä
Academic research on migration and the use of new media constitutes a growing
field. The first studies dealing explicitly with the field appeared in the end of the 1990s.
Now, it has become an established research area. The impact and importance of the new
technologies for migrants is well established. Appropriation of ICTs and new media
environments have become a ubiquitous feature of everyday life in migrant groups. The
research area is still understudied, characterized by rapid changes and shifts, and is
shaped by the changing structural conditions of migrants and the proliferation of forms of
media. In this article, I provide an overview of the developing research area through a
review of the existing literature on migration and the use of new media. I elaborate the
various aspects of the research field, the research category, current themes and topics,
theoretical and conceptual discussions, and methodological approaches.
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