Technologies and
media took a vital role in daisporic culture. Cyberspace is a significant ‘place’
where allow diasporic communities to exchange information and maintain
relationship by form a ‘virtual neighbourhood’ (ALC 215, p.3). The internet
communications are seen to be the new possibilities of democratic and rational
public debate which allowing all to become ‘equal’ to speak (Sun, p.132). Hence,
whether you are Migrants who are restricted the freedom of speech in origin
country or have been suffered an unfair treatment because of a demographic
factors, you allow to become ‘equal’ in internet. Social media are now a one of
powerful tool that allow migrants to received information, to express opinion
or even the ‘hate speech’, and thus to participate in the political activities
of origin country.
photo credit: http://www.facebook.com/events/111167695699731/
By today’s hot issue in HK, ‘withdrawing the national education’, we can see that how social media become a communication tool for Migrants to compatriots at home, and how diasporic communities desire to engage with the politics of their countries of origin. HKSS is a Deakin student club who launched a signature campaign with others 8 universities in Australia to support the campaign in hk. And there are different supporting campaigns are held in the world as well.
Australian overseas
higher education student (Hong Kong) joint statement: Requesting the Hong Kong
government withdraw the Moral and National Education Curriculum Facebook Page:
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHJRiYtKF64 by NTDTV
Reference
ALC
215 Study Guide, Topic 3, pp.3-4
Sun,
W 2002, ‘Fantasizing the homeland: the internet, memory, and exilic longings’,
Leaving China: media, migration, and transnational imagination 2002, Rowman
& Littlefield, Lanham, pp. 113-136
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