Egyptian e-diaspora: Migrant websites without a network?

Type de document :

Compte-rendu et recension critique d'ouvrage

DOI :

10.1177/0539018412456772

Titre :

Egyptian e-diaspora: Migrant websites without a network?

Auteur(s) :

Severo, Marta [Auteur]
Groupe d'Études et de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Information et COmmunication - ULR 4073 [GERIICO ]
Zuolo, Eleonora [Auteur]
Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 [UPD7]

Titre de la revue :

Social Science Information

Pagination :

521-533

Éditeur :

SAGE Publications

Date de publication :

2012-12

ISSN :

0539-0184

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sciences de l'information et de la communication

Résumé en anglais : [en]

The definition of Egyptian migration as a diaspora has been much debated and often denied. This article investigates the phenomenon of the Egyptian diaspora through an innovative approach based on an analysis of the digital ...
Lire la suite >The definition of Egyptian migration as a diaspora has been much debated and often denied. This article investigates the phenomenon of the Egyptian diaspora through an innovative approach based on an analysis of the digital activity and the presence of Egyptian connected migrants. Following the methodology of the e-Diaspora project, we found a weakly connected network of websites, with many isolated nodes, little clusterization and no authorities or hubs. The fact that the traditional approach of the e-diaspora yielded few results prompted us to follow a new research strategy combining data from Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. Because of a particularly fortuitous coincidence with the Egyptian revolt, we could investigate the mobilization of Egyptian migrants in pursuit of their voting rights on the micro-blogging platform Twitter. Through Twitter data, we identified links that were not visible through traditional Web-mapping techniques, and we could observe the emergence of a transnational Egyptian community debating and fighting for a common cause.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Vulgarisation :

Non

Collections :

Groupement d'Études et de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Information et Communication (GERiiCO) - ULR 4073

Source :

Harvested from HAL