Dismantling Cultural Borders Through Social Media and Digital Communications

Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.

• Section I: Social Networking, Ethnolinguistic Connotations and Interpretations of Identity.- Chapter 1: A bird’s eye view of networked communities and human identity.- Chapter 2: De-stigmatization and Identity Refactoring of Chinese Online Celebrities: Case of the Chinese Economy.- Chapter 3: Social Media as Mechanism for Accountability: Cases of China's Environmental Civil Society.- Section II: Media representations, North Digital Public Cultures and the Global North.- Chapter 4: Hate speech and the re-emergence of Caucasian Nationalism in the United States.- Chapter 5: How global cyber mediated news networks and social media platforms influenced messages about COVID-19 pandemic: Offering sociological solutions for Marginalized People.- Section III:  Social Media and ethnic identities negotiated.- Chapter 6: How Television news media reinforce racialized representations of Haitian and Colombian migration in multicultural urban Chile.- Chapter 7:  How social media is dismantling socio-cultural taboos in Afghanistan.- Section IV: Media representations in Global South: Discovering new routes for business.- Chapter 8: Ethnic Diversity and Human Capital Development in the Digital Age.- Chapter 9: Understanding the causes and consequence of COVID-19 Information Crisis in Africa: Defining an agenda for effective social media engagement during health pandemics.- Section V: Media Role in Negotiating National Identities.- Chapter 10: Negotiating and performing Vietnamese cultural identity using memes: A multiple case study of Vietnamese youth.- Chapter 11: Identity Negotiation and Cosmopolitanism in Social Media: The Case of London and Sao Paulo migrant communities.- Section VI: Geopolitics and cyber mediated communication initiatives as tools of ethnicity and diversity.- Chapter 12: Constructing the Consumer in the Digital Culture: American Brands and China's Generation Z.- Chapter 13: Ethnic group experiences with social media: The case of the Cherokee/and NativeAmericans Facebook group.- Chapter 14: A Revisit to networked communities and human identity.