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(2016) The digital transformation of the public sphere, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Digital ethnicities and (re-)construction of ethnic identities in social media
Slavka Karakusheva
pp. 283-301
Slavka Karakhusheva examines Pomak communities beyond state borders focusing on the role that social media play in the processes of constructing collective identities today. The Pomaks establish transnational connections with friends and relatives across borders. This chapter demonstrates the ways they join groups on Facebook, follow YouTube channels or subscribe to forums in an attempt to learn more about themselves, to share expertise on the culture of the community or, in other words, to participate in a newly emerging transnational public space.
Publication details
DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-50456-2_14
Full citation:
Karakusheva, S. (2016)., Digital ethnicities and (re-)construction of ethnic identities in social media, in A. Karatzogianni, D. Nguyen & E. Serafinelli (eds.), The digital transformation of the public sphere, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 283-301.