In this week’s content, the question that I need to answer
is how social media can actually help
maintain some of the narratives and symbols of community identity with people
in diaspora. Firstly, diaspora is a scattered population whose origin
lies within a smaller geographic locale. It can also be referred to as the
movement of the population from its original homeland. These people who are
moving from their homeland or cultural heartland generally have ties with those
who are from the same homeland but live in foreign land. They typically do not engage
in the new culture and way of life, but rather stick to the cultures of their
own people.
In terms of my social media site in Facebook, it really
helps these people out who are participating in ‘diaspora’ whether it is voluntary
or involuntary. These people who are living in foreign land will enjoy the
features that Facebook offers to help maintain relations with their friends and
family from back at their homeland. The community identity is upheld in my
opinion because of Facebook’s ability to keep the world connected. This makes
the worries of diaspora people about not being able to reach loved ones not
such a big problem, thanks to technological advancements, keeping in contact
with friends and family and upholding your community identity is quite easy.
This is a sense of empowerment of mass movements of people
feel that they are still connected with the ones they care about. I wrote this
blog in a space of about 15 minutes so if you read this and you see misspelled words
or poorly structured sentences. I apologise but that’s something you'll have to bear
with me this week.
(https://insights.ubuntu.com/2015/05/06/live-migration-in-lxd/)
References:
Kuttainen, V. (2015). BA1002: Our space: Networks, narratives and the making of place, week 7
notes [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from http://learnjcu/jcu.edu.au
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