Social Media Affordances and Migrant Political Practices
Publisher: Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe Volume: 20 pages, pdf Description: Despite the rich empirical findings of recent research on social media and migrant communities, the relationship between social media and political practices is not yet known. Further, research has produced contradictory findings, such as the use of social media for acquisition of liberal values on the one hand and the use of social media for political radicalization on the other. In addressing these issues, the present article has made use of the notion of affordances, imported from perceptual psychology, in order to understand what social media enable and constrain in terms of political practices.