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A gateway to the global city: Mobile place-making practices by expats.
- Source :
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New Media & Society . Apr2015, Vol. 17 Issue 4, p629-645. 17p. - Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Drawing from ethnographic research of expatriates who use meetup.com and similar digitally based social organizing platforms to access events in Paris, this paper explores how on- and offline meet-up rhetoric and routines contribute to the production of a mobile “sense of place” for people who have relocated or traveled alone. By highlighting how participants may use digital media to create a sense of belonging to an “international community” extendable across a series of local places, this research diverges from earlier studies that have focused on how migrants use media to maintain connections to a “homeland” or to reconstitute the home abroad. Although the paper celebrates new agencies afforded by mobile place-making, particularly for women, I suggest that as professional labor trends increasingly assert the value of placeless-ness, tools that combine communication with location-based digital organizing will only grow in importance and the “support” provided by them should be continually interrogated. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14614448
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- New Media & Society
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 101601455
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444813510135