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Kyrgyz Diaspora Online: Understanding Political Participation and Transnational Citizenship
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Körperschaftlicher Herausgeber
OSCE Academy in Bishkek
Abstract In an attempt to address the debate among social science scholars regarding whether or not online political engagement is a legitimate form of political participation and exercise of transnational citizenship, this study investigates the conditions under which migrants engage politically with virtua... mehr
In an attempt to address the debate among social science scholars regarding whether or not online political engagement is a legitimate form of political participation and exercise of transnational citizenship, this study investigates the conditions under which migrants engage politically with virtual communities; when and how online participation spills over to real-world social mobilization; and whether cross-border online-offline political participation creates a new form of transnational citizenship. Content analysis of virtual social media groups and pages on VKontakte, Odnoklassniki and Facebook demonstrates that, although migrants are not likely to routinely participate in, initiate, or continuously engage with political conversations on these platforms, crisis conditions, such as the October revolution in 2020, the first COVID wave the summer of that same year, and the Kyrgyz-Tajik border conflict in April-May 2021, trigger bursts of political activism on social media which carry over to the real-world in the form of fundraising and protest mobilization.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Diaspora; Transnationalität; politische Partizipation; Migrant; Internet; Soziale Medien; politische Kommunikation; Mobilisierung; Kirgisistan
Klassifikation
Migration
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
transnational citizenship
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Erscheinungsort
Bishkek
Seitenangabe
22 S.
Schriftenreihe
Research Paper / OSCE Academy in Bishkek, 7
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet