Being part of the life of one's hometown: Strategies to support community connectedness

PsychNology Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 61-82

  Castro, Luis A ^a   Gonzalez, Victor M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community Connectedness; Migration; Presence

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649901965     PISSN: 17207525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. BANXICO (2008). Remesas Familiares. Retrieved Feb 19th, 2008, from http://www.banxico.gob.mx/polmoneinflacion/estadisticas/balanzaPagos/balanzaPa gos.html
2. Baumeister, R. F., & Leary, M. R. (1995). The Need to Belong: Desire for Interpersonal Attachments as a Fundamental Human Motivation. Psychological Bulletin, 117(3), 497-529.
3. Bernal, V. (2005). Eritrea on-line: Diaspora, cyberspace, and the public sphere. American Ethnologist, 32(4), 660-675.
4. Burgees, K. (2005). Migrant Philanthropy and Local Governance. In B. J. Merz (Ed.), New Patterns for Mexico: Observations on Remittances, Philanthropic Giving, and Equitable Development (pp. 99-155). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
5. Carroll, J. M., Rosson, M. B., Kavanaugh, A., Dunlap, D. R., Schafer, W., Snook, J., & Isenhour, P. (2005). Social and civic participation in a community network. In R. Kraut, M. Brynin & S. Kiesler (Eds.), Domesticating Information Technologies (pp. 168-181). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
6. Castles, S., & Miller, M. J. (2003). The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World (Third Edition, Revised and Updated ed.). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
7. Castro, L. A., & Gonzalez, V. M. (2007, 18-20 Feb, 2007). Binding a Scattered Community in Rural Mexico with a Web-based System. Paper presented at the Web Based Communities 2007, Salamanca, Spain.
8. Charmaz, K. (2006). Constructing Grounded Theory: A Practical Guide Through Qualitative Analysis. London, UK: Sage Publications.
9. Chawla, L. (1992). Childhood Place Attachments. In I. Altman & S. Low (Eds.), Place Attachment (pp. 63-85). New York, NY: Plenum Press.
10. Chung, H., Lee, C. H. J., & Selker, T. (2006). Lover's cups: drinking interfaces as new communication channels. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2006) (pp. 375-380). Montréal, Québec, Canada: ACM Press.
11. Coleman, J. S. (1988). Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital. The American Journal of Sociology, 94, 95-120.
12. CONAPO (2005). Población nacida en México residente en Estados Unidos por características demográficas, 1994-2003,. Retrieved Oct 25th, 2006, from http://www.conapo.gob.mx/mig_int/series/030202.xls
13. Daft, R. L., & Lengel, R. H. (1986). Organizational information requirements, media richness and structural design. Management Science, 32(5), 554-571.
14. Dey, A. K., & de Guzman, E. (2006). From awareness to connectedness: the design and deployment of presence displays. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2006) (pp. 899-908). Montréal, Québec, Canada: ACM Press.
15. Dourish, P., & Bellotti, V. (1992). Awareness and coordination in shared workspaces, ACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 92) (pp. 107-114). Toronto, Ontario, Canada: ACM Press.
16. Fisher, S. (1989). Homesickness, Cognition, and Health. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
17. Fujita, H., & Nishimoto, K. (2004). Lovelet: a heartwarming communication tool for intimate people by constantly conveying situation data. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2004) (pp. 1553-1553). Vienna, Austria: ACM Press
18. Garcia-Zamora, R. (2005). The Impact of Remittances in Jerez, Zacatecas. In B. J. Merz (Ed.), New Patterns for Mexico: Observations on Remittances, Philanthropic Giving, and Equitable Development (pp. 19-32). Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
19. Gonzalez, V. M., & Castro, L. A. (2008). Keeping Strong Connections to the Homeland via Web-based Tools: The Case of Mexican Migrant Communities in the United States. The Journal of Community Informatics (to be published).
20. Grey, M. A., & Woodrick, A. C. (2005). "Latinos Have Revitalized Our Community": Mexican Immigration and Anglo Responses in Marshalltown, Iowa. In V. Zúñiga & R. Hernández-León (Eds.), New Destinations: Mexican Immigration in the United States (pp. 133-154). New York, NY: Russell Sage.
21. Hiller, H. H., & Franz, T. M. (2004). New ties, old ties and lost ties: the use of the internet in diaspora. New Media & Society, 6(6), 731-752.
22. Hummon, D. M. (1992). Community Attachment. In I. Altman & S. Low (Eds.), Place Attachment (pp. 253-277). New York, NY: Plenum Press.
23. Ijsselsteijn, W. A., de Ridder, H., Freeman, J., & Avons, S. E. (2000). Presence: Concept, determinants and measurement. In B. E. Rogowitz & T. N. Pappas (Eds.), SPIE Conference on Human Vision and Electronic Imaging V (Vol. 3959, pp. 520-529). San Jose, CA.
24. Keller, I., van der Hoog, W., & Stappers, P. J. (2004). Gust of me: reconnecting mother and son. Pervasive Computing, IEEE, 3(1), 22-27.
25. Licoppe, C. (2004). Connected presence: the emergence of a new repertoire for managing social relationships in a changing communication technoscape. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 22(1), 135-156.
26. Licoppe, C., & Smoreda, Z. (2006). Rhythms and Ties: Toward a Pragmatics of Technologically Mediated Sociability. In R. E. Kraunt, M. Brynin & S. Kiesler (Eds.), Computers, Phones, and the Internet: Domesticating Information Technology (pp. 296-324). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
27. Low, S. M. (1992). Symbolic Ties that Bind: Attachment to the Plaza. In I. Altman & S. Low (Eds.), Place Attachment (pp. 165-185). New York, NY: Plenum Press.
28. Mashek, D., Cannaday, L. W., & Tangney, J. P. (2007). Inclusion of Community In Self Scale: A Single-Item Pictorial Measure of Community Connectedness. Journal of Community Psychology, 35(2), 257-275.
29. Miller, D., & Slater, D. (2000). The Internet: an ethnographic approach. Oxford, UK: Berg.
30. Mynatt, E. D., Rowan, J., Craighill, S., & Jacobs, A. (2001). Digital family portraits: supporting peace of mind for extended family members, Conference on Human factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2001) (pp. 333-340). Seattle, Washington: ACM Press.
31. Picard, R. W. (1999). Affective Computing for HCI. Human-Computer Interaction: Ergonomics and User Interfaces, 1, 829-833.
32. Putnam, R. D. (2000). Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
33. Ratha, D., & Shaw, W. (2006). Global Economics Prospects: Economic Implications of Remittances and Migration (No. 34320). Washington, DC: The World Bank.
34. Rettie, R. (2003, Nov 5-8, 2003). Connectedness: A new dimension of CMC? Paper presented at the IADIS International Conference WWW/Internet 2003, Algarve, Portugal.
35. Riley, R. B. (1992). Attachment to the Ordinary Landscape. In I. Altman & S. Low (Eds.), Place Attachment (pp. 13-35). New York, NY: Plenum Press.
36. Rinderle, S. (2005). The Mexican Diaspora: A Critical Examination of Signifiers. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 29(4), 294-316.
37. Roberts, B. R., Frank, R., & Lozano-Ascencio, F. (1999). Transnational migrant communities and Mexican migration to the US. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 22(2), 238-266.
38. Stedman, R. C. (2002). Toward a Social Psychology of Place: Predicting Behavior From Place-Based Cognitions, Attitude, and Identity. Environment and Behavior, 34(5), 561.
39. Strauss, A. L., & Corbin, J. M. (1998). Basics of qualitative research: techniques and procedures for developing grounded theory. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
40. Suro, R., & Escobar, G. (2006). Survey of Mexicans Living in the U.S. on Absentee Voting in Mexican Elections. Washington, DC: Pew Hispanic Center.
41. Urry, J. (2002). Mobility and Proximity. Sociology, 36(2), 255-274.
42. van Baren, J., Ijsselsteijn, W. A., Markopoulos, P., Romero, N., & de Ruyter, B. (2004). Measuring affective benefits and costs of awareness systems supporting intimate social networks. In A. Nijholt & T. Nishida (Eds.), 3rd Workshop on Social Intelligence Design. CTIT Workshop Proceedings Series WP04-02 (pp. 13-19). Enschede, the Netherlands.
43. van Tilburg, M. (1997). The Psychological Context of Homesickness. In M. van Tilburg & A. Vingerhoets (Eds.), Psychological Aspects of Geographical Moves: Homesickness and Acculturation Stress. Tilburg, Netherlands: Tilburg University Press.