City, self, network: transnational migrants and online identity work
City, self, network: transnational migrants and online identity work
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城市、自我、网络：跨国移民与网络身份工作
DOI：
10.1145/2531602.2531693
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2014
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D. Boyd
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作者：
Jessica Lingel;Mor Naaman;D. Boyd
本文采用定性访谈的26个跨国移民在纽约市，分析社会技术的做法有关的在线身份工作。我们特别关注Facebook的使用，其好处包括与国外的朋友和家人保持联系，并记录日常城市生活。与此同时，许多参与者还报告了疲劳、社会文化紧张和对维护个人隐私感的担忧。这些经验突出了跨国实践如何使背景崩溃复杂化，参与者个人网络的地理分散使“扁平化”在线网络的冲突变得可见。我们的研究结果还表明了一种技术支持的代码转换，跨国移民利用社交媒体来执行社区，国籍和地理之间的交替身份。这一分析为HCI关于跨国主义和技术实践的研究提供了信息，以及在不断变化的社会和空间背景下在线身份工作的复杂性。
This paper uses qualitative interviews with 26 transnational migrants in New York City to analyze socio-technical practices related to online identity work. We focus specifically on the use of Facebook, where benefits included keeping in touch with friends and family abroad and documenting everyday urban life. At the same time, many participants also reported experiences of fatigue, socio-cultural tensions and concerns about maintaining a sense of personal privacy. These experiences highlight how transnational practices complicate context collapse, where the geographic dispersal of participants' personal networks renders visible conflicts of 'flattened' online networks. Our findings also suggest a kind of technology-enabled code-switching, where transnational migrants leverage social media to perform identities that alternate between communities, nationalities and geographies. This analysis informs HCI research on transnationalism and technological practices, as well as the complexities of online identity work in terms of shifting social and spatial contexts.