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In dit forumartikel werd door wetenschappers werkzaam in verschillende disciplines stilgestaan bij verschillende aspecten en mogelijke gevolgen van het gebruik van een ouderapp op de kinderopvang. Het eerste deel van het artikel start vanuit de beroepspraktijk van de kinderopvang en benadrukt de visie van kinderopvangmedewerkers op digitale media, waarbij ouderapps voornamelijk als waardevol worden ervaren, wat in contrast staat met hun zorgen over de impact van digitale media op jonge kinderen. Vervolgens komen vier disciplinaire perspectieven aan bod: een pedagogisch, juridisch, psychologisch en mediawetenschappelijk perspectief. Hierin wordt gewaarschuwd voor de ‘dataficatie’ van kinderen en de mogelijke conflicten met pedagogische waarden zoals privacy en autonomie. Ook wordt de naleving van kinderrechten besproken, met speciale aandacht voor privacy en gegevensbescherming van kinderen. Vervolgens wordt de rol van aandacht bij het gebruik van ouderapps behandeld, waarbij wordt gewezen op de belasting van het werkgeheugen van kinderopvangmedewerkers en ouders. Uiteindelijk wordt de impact overwogen van het veelvuldig delen van foto’s via ouderapps, waarbij wordt gewezen op de behoefte aan constante verbondenheid tussen ouders en kinderen en de mogelijke effecten op onder andere sociale druk. Er wordt geconstateerd dat hoewel ouderapps voordelen bieden in termen van administratie en communicatie, er zorgvuldig moet worden omgegaan met de mogelijke negatieve gevolgen, zoals privacy kwesties, verhoogde werkdruk en verstoring van de interactie tussen kinderopvangmedewerkers, ouders en kinderen.

European authorities are increasingly screening asylum seekers’ phones at the cost of their fundamental rights. In this piece, we suggest a procedural shift-prioritising fairness in the asylum procedure and voluntary cooperation towards purposeful goals.

In our contemporary world, migration and digital technologies mutually shape one another. They have historically always been intertwined, yet their dynamic relationship is constantly evolving. People on the move mediate their being and belonging in increasing conditions of datafication and digitization. Mobile devices, social media platforms and smartphone apps are used to shape the transnationally connected, and locally situated, social worlds in which migrants live their everyday lives. Connecting with friends, peers and family, sharing memories and information, navigating spaces and reshaping the local and the global in the process illustrate the proliferation of migration-related digital practices.

This volume addressed how migrants navigate their being in the world, crossing national borders, shaping new forms of diasporic affiliations and transnational belongings, while facing new forms of surveillance, control and datafication. We took as a starting point the main premise that the relationships between digital media technologies and migration / mobilities cannot be captured within the limited confines of single disciplines. Aiming to animate an interdisciplinary exchange, we therefore purposefully invited contributors from various fields and areas of expertise, including media, communication, geography, anthropology and sociology, to share their perspectives on (studying) migration in relation to digital media technologies

Doing Digital Migration present a comprehensive entry point to the variety of theoretical debates, methodological interventions, political discussions and ethical debates around migrant forms of belonging as articulated through digital practices. Digital technologies impact upon everyday migrant lives, while vice versa migrants play a key role in technological developments – be it when negotiating the communicative affordances of platforms and devices, as consumers of particular commercial services such as sending remittances, as platform gig workers or test cases for new advanced surveillance technologies. With its international scope, this anthology invites scholars to pluralize understandings of ‘the migrant’ and ‘the digital’. The anthology is organized in five different sections: Creative Practices; Digital Diasporas and Placemaking; Affect and Belonging; Visuality and digital media and Datafication, Infrastructuring, and Securitization. These sections are dedicated to emerging key topics and debates in digital migration studies, and sections are each introduced by international experts.

Focusing on research methodologies, this chapter addresses the potential and challenges of participatory action research (PAR) for working with marginalized youth communities in the context of media education and media literacy research. PAR may offer new opportunities to bridge the perspectives of academics, practitioners, and learners. Rather than conducting research on a community, it is an approach to research with communities. Participatory action research enables researchers to ensure that their academic objectives are aligned with the interests of the participants. The chapter is structured in three sections. In the first, we examine PAR objectives and detail where PAR originated. Second, we discuss the type of research questions PAR approaches can cover in relation to critical media literacy theories, introduce methodological techniques, and outline the challenges. Third, we present five principles – related to power relations, stakeholders, ethics, process, and reflection – for carrying out PAR. In general, PAR may contribute to larger changes currently observable in academia. Universities are increasingly seeking to rebrand the academic landscape, not as an ivory tower removed from society but as a publicly engaged institution. PAR provides an approach, methodology, and social justice-based ethics to support this broader shift toward engaged, community-based research.

Focusing on the Chinese context, this investigation addresses how digital labor platforms as specific instances of social media, mediate interactions between workers and clients. This article addresses the evolving landscape of domestic labor in contemporary China, specifically focusing on female internal migrant workers - commonly referred to as “Ayi’s” — in the gig economy. More specifically, by employing a feminist intersectional lens, we analyze the platformization of migrant Ayi’s identities on digital labor platforms and Chinese super-apps like WeChat and Swan Daojia. We also address how these rural-to-urban migrants may use these platforms to create new narratives for themselves. Based on in-depth interviews with 15 female migrant workers alongside a walkthrough study of three digital labor platforms, Ayi’s are found to represent themselves by branding themselves. This form of self-marketing offers the potential to transform their visibility in public from perceived low-skilled laborers to “pre-packaged” professionals. While enhancing visibility, and thereby improving the standing of some, the representational practices of Ayi’s also offer insights into newly emergent forms of vulnerability and marginalization, shaped by gender, migrant status, and socioeconomic class.