Understanding the role of ethnic online communities during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study of Korean immigrant women's information-seeking behaviors

IF 1 4区社会学 Q2 AREA STUDIES Asian Journal of Social Science Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.1016/j.ajss.2022.04.001

Gowoon Jung , Sou Hyun Jang

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The rule of social distancing, coupled with the closing down of ethnic enclaves, has led immigrants to become isolated from their ethnic groups. In this study, we investigate the increasing role of ethnic online communities in immigrants’ information-seeking behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. An analysis of 726 posts in MissyUSA reveals how an ethnic online community helps Korean immigrant women deal with the pandemic, reflecting the essence of a community amid societal lockdown. The findings suggest that these online communities supplement immigrant women's medical knowledge, build non-medical knowledge helpful to disadvantaged immigrants, and offer transnational knowledge regarding medical systems, products, and travel. These results provide evidence of how ethnic online communities promote immigrants’ ongoing incorporation into society through the development of domestically and transnationally engaged medical and non-medical knowledge.

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新冠肺炎疫情期间民族网络社区的作用——以韩国移民女性信息寻求行为为例

保持社会距离的规定，加上民族聚居地的关闭，导致移民与他们的民族群体隔离。在这项研究中，我们调查了在COVID-19大流行期间，少数民族在线社区在移民信息寻求行为中的作用。对“MissyUSA”的726个帖子的分析，揭示了民族网络社区如何帮助韩裔女性应对新冠疫情，反映了社会封锁时期社区的本质。研究结果表明，这些网络社区补充了移民女性的医学知识，构建了对弱势移民有帮助的非医学知识，并提供了关于医疗系统、产品和旅行的跨国知识。这些结果为族裔在线社区如何通过发展国内和跨国从事的医学和非医学知识促进移民持续融入社会提供了证据。

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期刊介绍： The Asian Journal of Social Science is a principal outlet for scholarly articles on Asian societies published by the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore. AJSS provides a unique forum for theoretical debates and empirical analyses that move away from narrow disciplinary focus. It is committed to comparative research and articles that speak to cases beyond the traditional concerns of area and single-country studies. AJSS strongly encourages transdisciplinary analysis of contemporary and historical social change in Asia by offering a meeting space for international scholars across the social sciences, including anthropology, cultural studies, economics, geography, history, political science, psychology, and sociology. AJSS also welcomes humanities-oriented articles that speak to pertinent social issues. AJSS publishes internationally peer-reviewed research articles, special thematic issues and shorter symposiums. AJSS also publishes book reviews and review essays, research notes on Asian societies, and short essays of special interest to students of the region.