2025 PhD Scholarship. Diaspora Influencers in Southeast Asia

Category: Research grant / fellowship / scholarship
Keywords: Asian disapora, diasporic identities, influencers, digital media, migration

There is a growing body of scholarship on diasporic connections on social media, often called “e-diasporas”, “digital diasporas”, “virtual diasporas”, focusing on the practices and meanings of transnational sociality and affinity forged on online (Candidatu et al., 2019). However, little attention has been given to the Southeast Asian context, where such migrant practices arise from a complex interplay of colonial history, postcolonial desire, and the capitalist logics of evolving digital media environments, including emerging influencer ecologies. Some scholars have pioneered this area of study, looking at select Southeast Asian cases of the Philippines and Singapore and exploring migrants’ (im)mobility in today’s digital environment (Cabalquinto, 2022; Kaur-Gill, 2023). Nonetheless, more research is needed to understand the rapidly evolving landscape of social media, where global and region-specific socio-cultural, political-economic factors intersect to shape the norms, practices, and conditions of such transnationally mediated connections and intimacies forged through prominent social media channels and other users in migrant and diasporic settings.

Initiator(s):
Curtin University

Deadline: 18.08.2024

https://scholarships.curtin.edu.au/Scholarship/?id=7137

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