Abstract
Marino S (2015) Making Space, Making Place: Digital Togetherness and the Redefinition of Migrant Identities Online Social Media + Society published 29 December 2015. doi: 10.1177/2056305115622479
Owing to errors made by the author, the article is incorrect. The following passages in this article reference the work of Dana Diminescu and Benjamin Loveluck, ‘Traces of Dispersion: Online Media and Diasporic Identities’ in Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, vol. 5 issue 1, March 2014. The author would like to make it clear that the entire passages are taken directly from Diminescu and Loveluck and should have appeared, unedited, within quotation marks. The author apologises to the readers. The following corrections apply:
pp.2–3
“All aspects of the migrant experience are affected by the ubiquitous presence of digital technologies. Even before he/she has left, the would-be migrant now usually forms his/her project after a thorough search on Google, rather than after hearing the stories told by those who have returned from emigration”, as it was in the past” (Diminescu and Loveluck, 2014, p.23). Even before crossing the border, the transnational experience involves going “through the screen” (Diminescu and Loveluck, 2014, p.24) in order to collect all the necessary information and possible support from those already settled in the destination of choice. This reliance on the Internet does not end once migrants relocate; on the contrary, as Diminescu and Loveluck (2014) suggest: “upon arrival in a new country, one of the first necessities is to acquire a mobile phone and maybe gain access to a computer, in order to find work but also to ‘remain connected’ with family and friends wherever they are” (Diminescu and Loveluck, 2014, p.24).
p.7
Within this context, diasporic online communities and web forums act as “nodes of socialization and interaction” (Diminescu and Loveluck, 2014, p.33), as they become “repositories and mirrors of the texts, pictures, sounds of the traditions that make up the singular but shared experiences towards which diasporas look back” (Diminescu and Loveluck, 2014, p.35) upon.