About Digital Diasporas

This collection is now closed to submissions.

Digital Diasporas publishes high-quality, original open research on communication among diasporic communities as facilitated by digital technologies and online media.

Digital communication platforms have created a new dimension in diaspora studies. These platforms provide a new space for diasporic people to re-define their identities, share their experiences, and create a digital community to support and be supported by. This interconnected community results in a new sense of spatiality that makes the geographies of proximity and distance less significant.

The papers may provide a sociological analysis of belonging, self-identification, and diasporic solidarity networks. We also welcome papers that focus on the political, geographical, and historical aspects of diasporic communications on digital networks.

Contributors should consider key issues including but not limited to:

• Digital Proximity vs Physical Distance in Diasporic Communications
• Interruption of the Unity Between Territory, Nationality and State though Digital Communications
• Understanding of the Diasporic Self through Digital Media
• Regional Analyses on Diaspora Engagement
• Empowerment of Transnational Communities through Online Media Outlets
• Global Cities and Diasporic Networks
• New Perspectives in Diasporic Experience
• Diaspora in Art, Film and Literature

Submissions using qualitative and quantitative methods are welcomed, as is methodological reflection on the challenges regarding conducting research from a transnational perspective. Like all of F1000Research, each article will undergo fully transparent post-publication peer review and include links to underlying data, following the F1000Research publication model.

Keywords: diasporas, diasporic communication, transnational communities, social media, digital media, digital proximity, diasporic networks, human migration, identity politics, social identity, digital community

Any questions about this Collection? Please email research@f1000.com

This collection is associated with the Political Communications and Human Migration Research Gateways.