Full Description
Media and Migration: Learning in a globalized world brings together studies located at the intersection of migration, media and learning, and considers how the learning practices of youth in migration are shaped by new media. The change in the mobilities of people, media, and material goods which allow new connections between 'global' and 'local' life has had a significant impact on contemporary migration, as well as social life more generally.
The contributors to this book show how learning trajectories of individual learners become defined by broadly distributed networks and knowledge systems. Learning in stable, closed, and culturally uniform settings is becoming the exception rather than the norm. While immigrant youth are often associated with juggling multiple lives or worlds, such juggling is increasingly becoming typical for all youth living with new media. The book therefore addresses youth learning more generally in relation to media, globalization, and diversity, as well as the digital learning practices of immigrants and non-immigrants. This book was originally published as a special issue of Learning, Media and Technology.
Contents
Introduction 1. Toppling hierarchies? Media and information literacies, ethnicity, and performative media practices 2. Mobilizing learning resources in a transnational classroom: translocal and digital resources in a community technology center 3. The future of digital working: knowledge migration and learning 4. Understanding glocal learning spaces: An empirical study of languaging and transmigrant positions in the virtual classroom 5. Literacy and capital in immigrant youths' online networks across countries 6. Challenging ideals of connected learning: the networked configurations for learning of migrant youth in the Netherlands
