Digital geographies of everyday multiculturalism: 'Let's go Nando's!'

被引:4
作者
Bennett, Katy [1 ]
Gardner, Zoe [1 ]
De Sabbata, Stefano [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Leicester, Sch Geog Geol & Environm, Bennett Bldg,Univ Rd, Leicester LE1 7RH, Leics, England
关键词
Everyday multiculturalism; multiculture; conviviality; throwntogetherness; twitter; digital geographies; TWITTER DATA; CONVIVIALITY; ENCOUNTERS; POLITICS; SPACES; RACE;
D O I
10.1080/14649365.2022.2065699
中图分类号
P9 [自然地理学]; K9 [地理];
学科分类号
0705 ; 070501 ;
摘要
As UK cities and towns become increasingly ethnically and culturally diverse, researchers have tuned into how people inhabit multiculturalism. Ethnographic approaches have focused on the kind of togetherness that people generate as they go about their everyday lives, observing the affective textures of interactions and happenings of the here and now in granular detail. Missing from these accounts is what crowdsourced data might add to understandings of how multicultural places are experienced. What is vital about this kind of data is that it is 'big', involving a diversity of voices similarly intent on messaging their experiences, presenting opportunities to scale up the affect of encounters and to quantify what is difficult to qualify. This paper brings Digital Geographies into conversation with research on everyday multiculturalism to examine qualitatively and quantitatively how social media use folds into and expresses various practices of sociality and connection. Our paper involves Twitter, Nando's and the city of Leicester in the UK to challenge and advance ways of understanding everyday multiculturalism in an era of global migration and ethnically complex populations.
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页码:1458 / 1477
页数:20
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