E-sian: youth negotiating Asian in racialized online groups on Facebook.

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dc.contributor.authorNguyen, Vi T. N.
dc.contributor.supervisorScott, Daniel George
dc.date.accessioned2011-08-30T18:58:48Z
dc.date.available2011-08-30T18:58:48Z
dc.date.copyright2011en_US
dc.date.issued2011-08-30
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Child and Youth Care
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis study is a qualitative, blended methods, online ethnography that seeks to explore how youth (re)negotiate what it means to be Asian through their participation in online, user-created, racialized groups within the popular social network site Facebook. What are the relationships and social processes between their online and offline interactions that contribute to the construction of a singular or multiple Asian identities? Through face-to-face and online interviews with youth participants in Vancouver, three broad themes emerged around: 1) the negotiation of Asian as a process of negotiating authenticity, 2) the use of humour and jokes as a means of resistance and reproduction of Asian stereotypes and 3) how the performance of one or multiple Asian identities are dependent on dramaturgical concepts of audience and stage. The data from this study highlight the complexity of racialized youth’s identity negotiations in an increasingly growing online world and the relevance and need for further research in this specific niche area.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/3525
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectyouthen_US
dc.subjectidentityen_US
dc.subjectethnic studiesen_US
dc.subjectinternet studiesen_US
dc.subjectqualitative studiesen_US
dc.titleE-sian: youth negotiating Asian in racialized online groups on Facebook.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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