Migrant children's digital stories: Identity formation and self-representation through media production
2007 (English)In: European Journal of Cultural Studies, ISSN 1367-5494, E-ISSN 1460-3551, Vol. 10, no 4, p. 447-464Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This article starts out from the European research project Children in Communication about Migration (CHICAM). It addresses questions about intercultural communication via the internet and about media production as a vehicle for personal expression and identity formation among excluded youth groups. The article starts out from a cultural theoretical perspective linked to an empirical analysis, which is based on a series of selected productions made by 12 to 14-year-old refugees. The productions represent various programme genres and formats. The use of visual language such as representational conventions are highlighted in order to find out how identities are (re)created in the process of media production. The article touches upon these productions as they reflect not only experiences in dealing with cultural tensions between the 'old' and the 'new' world, but also their views on their future life and on the conditions that they find crucial in developing themselves.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Sage Publications, 2007. Vol. 10, no 4, p. 447-464
Keywords [en]
Europe, Intercultural communication, Media production, Migrant, New media, Visual language, Young people
National Category
Media and Communications
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-1516DOI: 10.1177/1367549407081948Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-35549011438Local ID: 2082/1896OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-1516DiVA, id: diva2:238734
2008-06-112008-06-112018-03-23Bibliographically approved