CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Vatchkov, Christian Danielov |
|---|---|
| Title | The role of Facebook for overcoming the problem of the Stranger: A case study with Bulgarian immigrants in the United Kingdom |
| Summary | In this thesis I focus on the analysis of the possible coping strategies incited by the mediation of Facebook which can be adopted by immigrants to overcome the problem of status loss in the process of immigration. In the first chapter I analyze the existing in the physical world channels for information flow between the domestic and the foreign peer group and their limitations for establishing a vital connection between peer networks from different social settings. I also focus on the role of cohesive immigrant groups and pre-SNS forms of mediated communication. In the second chapter I deal with the mediation of Facebook and the opportunities for self-representation provided by it, which allow the immigrant to regain control over her history, to receive confirmation for that history from her peers due to the mediation of the SNS and possibly to capitalize social assets from. The third chapter focuses on my case study with Bulgarian immigrants in the United Kingdom, and the specific strategies adopted by them to cope with the insecurities in their everyday life in the light of the anti-Bulgarian media campaign spearheaded by the Daily mail. The theoretical approach and the findings of this research can be of interest for social scientists concerned with the problems of cybersociology and immigration studies. Keywords: social networks; homophilous ties; Facebook; computer mediated communication; cohesive networks; status loss; |
| Supervisor | Fabiani, Jean-Louis; Dafinger, Andreas |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/vachkov_christian.pdf |
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