Net-Working Opportunities to Learn and to Become: Examining How Immigrant Youth in the Netherlands Use New Media in the Production of Social Space
Location
Beaman A&B
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
24-9-2013 6:00 PM
Description
This presentation examines the social networks of second-generation immigrant youth (primarily Moroccan and Turkish) in The Netherlands as these networks are transformed by social media practices. Conceiving of social networks as spatial formations that extend across online and offline contacts, we consider how immigrant urban youth are spatially constrained and yet agentive and responsive in producing spaces for learning and identity. Drawing on social network analysis, Dr. Leander analyzes how relationships are organized, who functions as central figures or “nodes” within them, and how such networks traverse geographical boundaries such as school, community, city, and nation. Examining how immigrant youth marshal, use, create, and hybridize specific media resources allows us to understand how identity work produces individuals, while simultaneously (re)producing collective resources for identity work.
Recommended Citation
Leander, Kevin, "Net-Working Opportunities to Learn and to Become: Examining How Immigrant Youth in the Netherlands Use New Media in the Production of Social Space" (2013). Humanities Symposium. 20.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2013/2013/20
Net-Working Opportunities to Learn and to Become: Examining How Immigrant Youth in the Netherlands Use New Media in the Production of Social Space
Beaman A&B
This presentation examines the social networks of second-generation immigrant youth (primarily Moroccan and Turkish) in The Netherlands as these networks are transformed by social media practices. Conceiving of social networks as spatial formations that extend across online and offline contacts, we consider how immigrant urban youth are spatially constrained and yet agentive and responsive in producing spaces for learning and identity. Drawing on social network analysis, Dr. Leander analyzes how relationships are organized, who functions as central figures or “nodes” within them, and how such networks traverse geographical boundaries such as school, community, city, and nation. Examining how immigrant youth marshal, use, create, and hybridize specific media resources allows us to understand how identity work produces individuals, while simultaneously (re)producing collective resources for identity work.
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