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Digital Media, Diversity and the Physical World

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In this chapter,  Gomes provides a much-needed and urgent understanding of the digital experiences of transient migrants. This chapter focuses on digital technologies not only as ubiquitous parts of everyday life but also as disruptors of real-world experiences. Gomes documents how digital media facilitates transient migrants’ sense of belonging to both sender as well as receiver countries. This chapter points out that while transient migrants are digital natives, their digital experiences differ not only from members of the receiver society but also from each other due to country-specific digital media behaviour. In this context, Gomes succinctly explains how transient migrants are not only polymedia users but also polylingual polymedia users.

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Gomes, C. (2018). Digital Media, Diversity and the Physical World. In: Siloed Diversity. Palgrave Pivot, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0332-6_3

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