Smartphone-based language practices among refugees: mediational repertoires in two families
- This paper explores how refugee families in Germany draw on me-diational repertoires to accomplish a range of digital literacy prac-tices on their smartphones. We introduce the concept of ‘mediation-al repertoire’, i.e. a socially and individually structured configuration of semiotic and technological resources for communication, and use it in an ethnographic case study with participants from Syria and Af-ghanistan in a refugee residence in Hamburg in 2017/18. The collect-ed data includes nine semi-directed interviews, video demonstra-tions of smartphone usage, and ethnographic fieldnotes. Qualitative analysis draws on mediagrams, i.e. visualizations of mediational re-pertoires in two families. Findings suggest that individual mediation-al repertoires in these families differ especially by generation and other factors, such as literacy competence, type of social relation-ship and purpose of online use, including smartphone-based lang-uage-learning.
Author: | Olga Artamonova, Jannis Androutsopoulos |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-551503 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/jfml.2019.14 |
ISSN: | 2569-6491 |
Parent Title (English): | Journal für Medienlinguistik : jfml = Journal for media linguistics |
Publisher: | Institut für Deutsche Sprache |
Place of publication: | Mannheim |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2020/07/15 |
Date of first Publication: | 2020/04/08 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2020/07/16 |
Tag: | informal language learning; linguistic repertoires; mediational repertoire; polymedia; refugees; smartphone-based language practices |
GND Keyword: | Mobile Telekommunikation; Linguistik |
Volume: | 2 |
Issue: | 2 |
Page Number: | 30 |
First Page: | 60 |
Last Page: | 89 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 467516030 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache |
Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Soziolinguistik / Sociolinguistics |
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Medienlinguistik / Media linguistics | |
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | Journal für Medienlinguistik : jfml = Journal for media linguistics |
: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-478105 |
Licence (German): | ![]() |