Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social Media and the Transnational Mobilization of Social Movements

本文考察了东道国的移民政策是否塑造了世界各地倡导团体的话语和组织联盟。该项目分析了西欧和美国的特定侨民的情况。它利用互联网文件、网站超链接和社交媒体关系，使用跨国比较来审查：(1)东道国移民政策对侨民倡导组织的话语和网络结构的影响；(2)东道国侨民与这些话语的社交媒体关系；(3)侨民在这些东道国的族裔认同和参与。这项研究分析了20多个国家的4000多个活跃网站，这些网站与散居海外的倡导有关。比较分析审查东道国移民政策如何影响这些不同话语(例如，民族自治和分离主义)的流行程度、东道国人口的从属率以及表明这些倡导团体之间联盟和分歧的网站之间的超链接网络结构。最后，我们研究了这些组织模式是否与这些国家的散居者和针对散居者的暴力发生率有关。这项研究对类似案例的理论发展和利益相关者的使用具有一定的借鉴意义。

This dissertation examines whether host country immigration policies shape the discourses and organizational alliances of worldwide advocacy groups. The project analyses the case of specific diaspora in Western Europe and the United States. Drawing on internet documents, website hyperlinks and social media affiliations, it uses cross-national comparison to examine: (1) the effects of host country immigration policies on the discourses and network structure of diaspora advocacy organizations; (2) the social media affiliations with these discourses among the host country diaspora population; and (3) the ethnic identities and participation of diaspora activists in these host countries. This study analyzes over four thousand active websites associated with diasporic advocacy in two dozen countries. Comparative analysis examines how host country immigration policies shape the prevalence of these different discourses (e.g. ethnic autonomy and separatism), the affiliation rates among the host country population and the network structure of hyperlinks among websites that indicate alliances and divides among these advocacy groups. Finally, we examine whether these organizational patterns are linked to rates of violence by and against diaspora in these countries. This research has implications for theoretical development and use by stakeholders relative to similar cases.