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Urban & Online: Social Media Use among Adolescents and Sense of Belonging to a Super-Diverse City
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Abstract In a world of continuous migration, super-diverse cities consist of a multitude of migrants and non-migrants from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Yet one characteristic they all have in common is the place where they currently live. In addition, both groups are active users of social media, espec... mehr
In a world of continuous migration, super-diverse cities consist of a multitude of migrants and non-migrants from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Yet one characteristic they all have in common is the place where they currently live. In addition, both groups are active users of social media, especially the young. Social media provide platforms to construct and negotiate one’s identity - particularly the identity related to where one lives: urban identity. This article presents the results of a survey study (N = 324) investigating the relationships between social media engagement and identity construction among migrant and non-migrant adolescents in the super-diverse city of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It was found that urban identity was significantly higher for migrants than non-migrants. Certain aspects of social media engagement predicted urban identity in combination with social identity. Finally, social media engagement was found to be positively related to group self-esteem.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Niederlande; Großstadt; Adoleszenz; Jugendlicher; Identitätsbildung; Migration; Soziale Medien; Diversität; Urbanität; Online-Dienst
Klassifikation
Jugendsoziologie, Soziologie der Kindheit
Siedlungssoziologie, Stadtsoziologie
interaktive, elektronische Medien
Freie Schlagwörter
Rotterdam; identity construction; self-esteem; super-diversity; urban identity
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 242-253
Zeitschriftentitel
Media and Communication, 7 (2019) 2
Heftthema
Refugee Crises Disclosed: Intersections between Media, Communication and Forced Migration Processes
ISSN
2183-2439
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)