Chapter One: From Diasporic Audience Studies to Digital
Migration Studies
Chapter Two: Searching for Ontological Security in a Transnational
Space
Chapter Three: Making Home Through Transnational Cord-Cutting
Practice
Chapter Four: Connecting Home Through Smartphone and Algorithm
Culture
Chapter Five: Complicating Home through Mediatization and
Transnationalism
Chapter Six: Gendered Visa? Dependent Women’s Media and
Home-Making
Claire Shinhea Lee received her PhD in media studies from the University of Texas at Austin.
Claire Shinhea Lee's "Mediatized Transient Migrants: Korean
Visa-Status Migrants' Transnational Everyday LIves and Media Use"
provides an engaging analysis of the role and meaning of digital
media in transnational lives. This book explores how
temporary-visa-status migrants engage with digital media to connect
with their homeland and negotiate their transnational everyday
lives. Overall, it's compelling, empirical analysis and effective
theoretical framwork make this book a useful addition to media,
migration studies and Asian studies.
*Pacific Affairs*
Claire Shinhea Lee’s book offers a compelling examination of the
mediatization of Korean transient migrants in Austin, Texas. In
focusing on how temporary-visa status holders digitally make their
everyday, emotional and transnational home and belongingness, Lee
problematizes unilinear cultural assimilationist paradigms and
binary understandings of mobility-stasis in migration. Contributing
to emerging interdisciplinary scholarly debates on digital
migration, the category of transience is proposed as an important
innovative analytic lens to address how multiple positionalities
including gender, class, nationality, visa-status, generation and
age intersect and together co-shape identification and
subordination of people on the move. This book is warmly
recommended to media, communication, diaspora, migration, Korean,
and journalism studies scholars and students looking to find rich
ethnographic examples and theoretical tools to understand better
how people negotiate living in our contemporary world which is
increasingly shaped by both migration and mediatization.
*Koen Leurs, Utrecht University*
With strong empirical evidence and a sophisticated theoretical
framework, Claire Shinhea Lee has produced a compelling framework
for understanding migration and ethnic bonds in times of mobility
and new media technologies. While theorists of globalization have
for some time written about space-time compression, more studies
are needed to understand the complex phenomenological effects of
such phenomena. Mediatized Transient Migrants fulfills this crucial
role and does it by convincingly showing the role media
technologies play in the re-constitution of home, in the fragile
yet essential production of ontological security, and in the
complex, ambiguous, and, at times, ambivalent restructuring of the
affective world of Korean diasporas in the United States. This book
is essential reading to anyone interested in grounded work on
globalization, immigration, ethnic studies, new media, and Asian
and Asian American Studies.
*Hector Amaya, University of Southern California, Annenberg*
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