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This electronic thesis or dissertation has been downloaded from the King’s Research Portal at https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/ Ethnicity Mediated: Identity Practices of Greek Diaspora on a Social Network Site Doutsou, Ioanna Awarding institution: King's College London The copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without proper acknowledgement. END USER LICENCE AGREEMENT Unless another licence is stated on the immediately following page this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work Under the following conditions: Attribution: You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Non Commercial: You may not use this work for commercial purposes. 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Ethnicity Mediated: Identity Practices of Greek Diaspora on a Social Network Site Contents ABSTRACT ............................................................................................................................. 7 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................... 8 1. LITERATURE REVIEW .................................................................................................. 15 1.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 15 1.2 A Framework for the Study of Identity ......................................................................... 17 1.3 The Study of Ethnicity and Diaspora ............................................................................ 22 1.4 Ethnicity Beyond Boundaries........................................................................................ 26 1.4.1 Diasporic Identities in the Era of New Media ....................................................... 27 1.4.2 Diaspora and Transnationalism ............................................................................. 29 1.4.3 The Notion of Connectivity ................................................................................... 32 1.4.4 The Notion of Home .............................................................................................. 32 1.4.5 The Notion of Space .............................................................................................. 34 1.5 The Study of Virtual Ethnicity and Diaspora ................................................................ 36 1.5.1 Ethnicity Online ..................................................................................................... 36 1.5.2 Virtual Diaspora: Transnational Social Spaces, Communities and Networks ...... 40 1.5.3 Ethnicity, Representation and Interaction on the Web .......................................... 43 1.6 Identity on Online Social Network Sites ....................................................................... 47 1.6.1 Anonymity and the Interplay Between Online and Offline World ....................... 48 1.6.2 The Process of Editing the Self ............................................................................. 51 1.6.3 Interaction on Social Network Sites ...................................................................... 55 1.6.4 Concepts of the Web Audience ............................................................................. 57 1.7 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................... 59 2. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS ......................................................................... 61 2.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 61 2.2 Virtual Ethnography ...................................................................................................... 63 2.3 Sampling Strategy ......................................................................................................... 64 2.4 Types of Data and the Process of Data Collection ........................................................ 68 3 2.4.1 Ethnospecific Content............................................................................................ 69 2.4.2 Online Data ............................................................................................................ 70 2.4.3 Offline Data ........................................................................................................... 76 2.5 The Participants ............................................................................................................. 78 2.6 Reflections on the Process of Data Collection .............................................................. 80 2.6.1 Gaining Access to the Field ................................................................................... 81 2.6.2 Ethical Considerations ........................................................................................... 83 2.6.3 Moving Between Online and Offline Research Settings ....................................... 85 2.7 Methods of Analysis...................................................................................................... 87 2.7.1 Quantitative and Qualitative Methods ................................................................... 87 2.7.2 Content Analysis.................................................................................................... 89 2.7.3 Discourse Analysis ................................................................................................ 92 2.7.4 Mixed Methods and Multimodality ....................................................................... 93 2.8 Conclusion ..................................................................................................................... 99 3. SELF PRESENTATION, INTERACTION AND PARTICIPATION ON THE PROFILE AND GROUP PAGES: AN OVERVIEW .......................................................................... 100 3.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 100 3.2 Patterns, Frequencies: Key Questionnaire and Interview Findings ............................ 101 3.3 Practices for Self-presentation on the Profiles ............................................................ 106 3.4 Interactional Practices and the Dialogical Dimension of the Profiles ......................... 109 3.5 Practices of Participation ............................................................................................. 117 3.5.1 Creating and Joining a FB Group ........................................................................ 118 3.5.2 An Overview of FB Groups for Greeks in London ............................................. 120 3.5.3 Transnational Practices on FB Groups: Building Networks of Practice ............. 127 3.6 Conclusion ................................................................................................................... 134 4. REPRESENTATIONS OF ETHNICITY IN THE PROFILES....................................... 136 4.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................. 136 4.2 Ethnospecific Content on the Profiles ......................................................................... 138 4.3 The Symbolic Reproduction of Greek Ethnic Culture on FB pages ........................... 141 4.3.1 Stereotypical Ways of Identification in FB Groups ...........................................