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Immigration and Social Capital in the Age of Social Media - American Social Institutions and a Korean-American Women's Online Community (Hardcover)
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Immigration and Social Capital in the Age of Social Media - American Social Institutions and a Korean-American Women's Online Community (Hardcover)
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In this new age of social media, the role of online ethnic networks
is as important as offline ethnic networks-families, friends,
etc.-in helping immigrants adjust to their new country. This is
something that has received very little attention in the academic
field of international immigration which Oh hopes to rectify
through this book. He focuses on the five American social
institutions (immigration, welfare, education, housing, and
finance) to explore this topic through the lens of married
Korean-American women. In their online "MissyUSA" community, the
largest Korean-American women's online community in North America,
they share a wide range of information about the rules of each of
these social institutions as they work together to navigate
American society. Oh explores how the "MissyUSA" community creates
two distinctive forms of social capital: social resources and
social support. For some of its members (inquirers or information
seekers), the "MissyUSA" community functions as an important source
of their information (social resources) about the rules of the
American social institutions. Likewise, it also functions as a
network of social supporters (respondents or information providers)
for those information seekers. Here, what makes this book a
significant one is the fact that these social supporters are
distinctively identified as instrumental guiders (information
describers, expositors, confirmers, and advisors) and emotional
supporters (companions, encouragers, and critics). By researching
the lives of Korean-American women who are members of the
"MissyUSA" community, Oh's book works to understand how a sub-set
of the Korean-American community shares information about American
institutions and uses the internet to do so.
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