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11/7/2014

Temporary nature of immigrant journeys. Moving, displacing. Entering and exiting worlds without setting in. But with great capacity for imagining themselves in new worlds, of assuming identities. Of assimilating.

Assimilating fast to the digital world but to a segment that is in the bottom, to the consumer segment.

The tools that immigrant use for navigating their journey, their voyage, their assimilation trajectories.

Tools at home, at afterschool, and at the Internet. Differetn worlds with tools for imagining, for doing activities, for engaging in media practices and developing skills.

11/8/2014

Think about the initial conditions from where hispanic/latino youth start their assimilation. The home gives us clues about those initial conditions. The family position. Also gives us clues about the longer journey, longer trajectory that the immigrants are having, their strategies. Chapter 2, can be organized around the different kinds of acculturation of the families and how that is related to strategies of assimilation, parental-children relationships, and media practices. Communal media practices, individual media practices, computer use, mobile phones. Describe the trajectory of assimilation of the whole family. How youth becomes the leading user of digital media, and how that could help in the assimilation process, or not. Little use of technology in terms of civics, politics, economic participation. Lots of use in terms of culture, education, consumerism. Computer is associated with school, with education, with learning.

Why do their parents buy them tools, digital devices, internet connections, mobile phones? What are their reasons? How do they position youth inside the house? as learners?

What kind of values are developed inside the house? how are they related to media consumption? uses?

Geography. Location of the homes in the north of the city, in the fringe of the city. Close to the suburbs. This families have moved to the suburb in search of better opportunities, better high schools. These neighborhoods are considered to be safer than other zones such as Dove Springs that has become a hispanic/latino enclave in the south of the city.

Sense of place is not really felt by these families. Youth does not even know the names of their neighborhoods, the do no go to parks. They are somehow isolated, as the school itself from the rest of the city.


Need some data about austin, its neighborhoods, the latino population.