Dana Diminescu’s research while affiliated with Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and other places

... The European Union (EU) funded DiaporaLink Project was started to investigate how diaspora groups can be supported by a web portal and what strategies might facilitate transnational diaspora entrepreneurship (DiaporaLink Project, 2016). Using ICT to support people in the diaspora has been tried earlier in EU projects with a successful result (Diminescu et al., 2009;Borkert, Cingolani & Premazzi, 2009). Today many persons in the diaspora have good English skills, but when it comes to more technical descriptions most people have easier to understand if instructions are given in their native language (Pierce & Robisco, 2010). ...

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ePortfolios for Entrepreneurs / ePortafolios para Emprendadoras – Design and Development of an Online Distance Course

... Broadly speaking, academic literature on e-diasporas is extensive and covers a wide range of aspects. However, overall, neither the side-effects of the "hyperconnected diasporas" are even slightly addressed (Diminescu 2012;Ponzanesi 2020;Oiarzabal 2012) nor any alternative based on ongoing emancipatory and descentralized literature on terms such as "network state" (Srinivasan 2022), "translocal geographies" , "the diaspora diaspora" (Brubaker 2005), "the society of algorithms" (Burrell and Fourcade 2021) Rennie et al. 2022). The emerging ecosystem of initiatives is just starting to understand the legal, computational, governance, diversity, treasure management, tax, regulatory, and other challenges of running decentralized blockchain-driven digital citizenship initiative to better structure ediasporas (Calzada 2018;Mejias and Couldry 2024;Nye 2008;Riordan 2019). ...

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Beyond the Local-Global Nexus: Towards P2P Decentralized AI-Driven Diasporic e-Citizenship for Data Cooperatives

... reports by Codagnone and Kluzer (2011) and Kluzer, Haché, and Codagnone (2008) on digital inclusion, with data on icts and the integration of immigrants into several european countries and other exploratory work, appear to reinforce this hypothesis (Boso and ros, 2010; ofcom, 2008). Qualitative research has demonstrated the role of ict in the integration of immigrants and the promotion of cultural diversity in the new network societies (Hepp, Welling, and Aksen, 2009; maya et al., 2009; Diminescu, 2002 Diminescu, , 2004 Nedelcu, 2009). in the current context of the network society, the integration of immigrants seems to imply much more than a simple process of socioeconomic insertion, civic and political participation or the mere internalization of the social norms and cultural values of the destination country. The integration of the immigrant population into the network society means " being connected " , in other words, 1) being able to intelligently combine mobility, autonomy and communication , 2) knowing how to make strategic use of connectivity networks and 3) striking a balance between relations with the country of origin and the destination country (Diminescu, 2008). ...

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Connected Immigrants? Four Methodological Challenges for the Analysis of ict Use through Survey Data

... 30.4% 54.3% Figure 9. "You are part of a group working on a project, and no one else is doing any work. What would you most likely do? 10 Stop w orking as w ell. ...

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Without explicit authorisation from CiCe (the copyright holder)

... Initiatives that link ICT-practice to real life needs and interests have proven to be most successful. These include for instance language learning and courses aimed at employment (Codagnone, Kluzer, and Haché 2009). However, the success of such computer courses are dependent on the courses being flexible, userfriendly and taking the needs of the women into considerations (Ktoridou and Eteokleous-Grigoriou 2011). ...

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Designing for social inclusion of immigrant women: the case of TeaTime http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KcYHGmTjumXpRxtIJUBU/full

... plusieurs années (Macilotti 2015 ; rapport ONU 2014), l'usage effectif du système mis en place est loin d'être efficace. En effet, dans le cadre de nos recherches, nous avons pu observer un phénomène qui montre les limites de ces politiques : chez les migrants -aussi bien les nouveaux arrivants que ceux qui sont installés en France depuis plusieurs années -la tendance est d'aller à la recherche d'une interaction avec un représentant institutionnel ou de la société civile plutôt qu'engager une interaction personne-machine (voir Kluzer & Haché 2009). Les extraits des interactions que nous avons analysés illustrent justement cette tendance, ainsi que les obstacles rencontrés dans la réalisation de procédures ou de recherche d'informations liées aux droits sociaux sur Internet (comme le raconte l'usager de l'extrait 1). ...

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« Go Internet it’s here » : démarches administratives de personnes précaires ou en demande d’asile

... Digital research methods have opened new avenues for studying the importance of language as a marker of ethnic identity. This is mostly done either through digital ethnographies (for a review see Varis 2015; on the Italian diaspora see Marino 2015) or through text analysis techniques, including sentiment analysis and text mining, which are applied to social media data to identify linguistic markers of ethnic identity, exploring keywords, hashtags, and other linguistic features that are indicative of ethnicity (e.g., Medina 2014;Diminescu and Loveluck 2014;Kumar 2018). Our approach aligns with the latter rationale. ...

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Revisiting acculturation research with big data: the case of the Italian diaspora through the lens of Facebook interests

... Men are the prime users of the Internet and in a most pronounced way, in Middle Eastern dating and chat sites-the topic in which we are most interested in this paper. In fact, in a survey of subscribers to muslima.com, for example, Diminescu and Renault (2011) found that in Middle Eastern countries, virtually all the users were men (see Figure 1). This means that the few women who dare to sign into the new media will have a wide selection of potential mates and people to chat with, while men will have very few alternatives. ...

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From pen pals to chat rooms: the impact of social media on Middle Eastern Society

... This study defines a co-location event as a call between two subscribers connected to the same cell tower. A co-location event can be seen as a call to coordinate a meeting in a nearby area, referred to as a "coordination knot", as hypothesized by [39,40]. Of course, two mobile phone users can call each other while sharing the same cell tower without meeting each other. ...

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Face-to-Face Interactions Estimated Using Mobile Phone Data to Support Contact Tracing Operations

... Les pratiques communicationnelles des migrants, portées et accentuées par l'usage des TIC, forment de vastes corpus de données à explorer. Captées directement depuis des flux d'informations live ou récupérées après coup dans des systèmes de stockage, ces données peuvent aider à comprendre le fonctionnement de certains réseaux transnationaux, tels que des systèmes de transfert d'argent par téléphone portable (Bounie et al., 2010), ou encore servir à mesurer l'intégration des migrants dans les pays d'accueil. Ce sont également des vecteurs de compréhension des modalités de surveillance déployées par les institutions pour contrôler les étrangers (Amoore, 2006). ...

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Archives, fragments Web et diasporas. Pour une exploration désagrégée de corpus d’archives Web liées aux représentations en ligne des diasporas