[Air-l] Residential mobility and technology use

[Isa Ducke]

It's not exactly on migration, but check the work of Kakuko Miyata (who has
presented at AoIR) on Japanese mobile Internet use. I remember that her data
include figures on the type of people (friends, relatives, work colleagues,
people whom you often or rarely meet in person) with whom different types of
new media are used (e-mail from mobile phone, e-mail from PC, voice, etc).
Isa

----- Original Message ----- 
> Hello,
>
> I am a graduate student in HCI at Carnegie Mellon University and am
> starting my dissertation on the topic of residential mobility as a natural
> experiment on the health of social ties (how people use/don't use
> technology for keeping in touch and creating new relationships and whether
> they are successful). I am specifically interested in migration within
> country, not international migration. I was wondering if anyone knows of
> any similar work (quantitative or qualitative). Also, I am curious if
> anyone knows of any ethnographies of the process of contemporary
> residential mobility within countries.
>
> Thank you!!
>
> Irina Shklovski
> Graduate Researcher
> Human Computer Interaction Institute
> Carnegie Mellon University
>
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