"El myspace lo trajeron del norte" Redes Sociales y Migración: Formación de Comunidades Transnacionales Virtuales

Resumen

This work studies how virtual transnational communities are getting formed in the Internet. For younger generations, the transnational communicative activity is found in the creation of public (and semipublic) forums, social networks and other resources from the Internet to negotiate their transnational condition. By this kind of interactions, younger generation maintain the sense of community. Transnationalism is used as a theoretical framework to describe the migration and daily life and interaction to do the communicative analysis.