Digital borders in spatial-temporal mobility: Social inclusion and exclusion of Chinese migrant students in Macao

IF 3.1 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Mobile Media & Communication Pub Date : 2023-01-18 DOI:10.1177/20501579221149838
Chuyue Ou, Zhongxuan Lin
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While mobile social media has increasingly become embedded in migrants’ daily lives, how mobile social media affects migrants’ cross-border experiences remains under-researched. Based on a 2-year ethnographic study, this article demonstrates a more complex relationship among mobile social media, migrants’ spatial-temporal mobility, and their subjective experience of social inclusion and exclusion. Situated in a Chinese cross-border context (Macao Special Administrative Region), this article elaborates on how mobile social media leads to heterogeneous and synchronous spatial-temporal mobility in a homogeneous time-narrative. This article further explains how and why mainland students’ social exclusion transforms into digital inclusion, where the blurring boundaries create the possibility of digital and social inclusion but also risk deeper exclusion and internal borders. The article argues for a new epistemology of the border, which is complicated, heterogeneous, and paradoxical, while mobile social media reinvigorates the border concept in how it constructs and deconstructs territorial/internal boundaries and inclusion/exclusion dynamics.
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时空流动中的数字边界:澳门中国留学生的社会包容与排斥
尽管移动社交媒体越来越多地融入移民的日常生活,但移动社交媒体如何影响移民的跨境体验仍有待研究。基于一项为期2年的民族志研究,本文展示了移动社交媒体、移民的时空流动性及其社会包容和排斥的主观体验之间更为复杂的关系。本文立足于中国的跨境语境(澳门特别行政区),阐述了移动社交媒体如何在同质的时间叙事中导致异质和同步的时空流动。本文进一步解释了大陆学生的社会排斥是如何以及为什么转变为数字包容的,模糊的边界创造了数字和社会包容的可能性,但也有更深层次的排斥和内部边界的风险。这篇文章主张对边界进行一种新的认识论,这种认识论是复杂、异质和矛盾的,而移动社交媒体在如何构建和解构领土/内部边界以及包容/排斥动态方面重振了边界概念。
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期刊介绍: Mobile Media & Communication is a peer-reviewed forum for international, interdisciplinary academic research on the dynamic field of mobile media and communication. Mobile Media & Communication draws on a wide and continually renewed range of disciplines, engaging broadly in the concept of mobility itself.
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