The book was purchased through the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
Contents:
Introduction -- From diasporic audience studies to digital migration studies -- Searching for ontological security in a transnational space -- Making home through transnational cord-cutting practice -- Connecting home through smartphone and algorithmic culture -- Complicating home through mediatization and transnationalism -- Gendered visa -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- References -- Index -- About the author
Summary:
This book explores the role of new media technology in transient migration in terms of mobility, national identity, and sense of home. Through 40 personal interviews with Korean migrants, Claire Shinhea Lee analyzes how homeland media in the transnational space helps migrants make, connect to, and complicate home
