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<journal-title>Global Journal of Human-Social Science - C: Sociology &amp; Culture</journal-title>
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<issn publication-format="print">0975-587X</issn>
<issn publication-format="electronic">2249-460X</issn>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.34257/GJHSSC157290</article-id>
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<article-title>Digital Diasporas: Rethinking Transnational Belonging, Space, and Citizenship in the Digital Age</article-title>
<subtitle>Digital Diasporas and Transnational Belonging</subtitle>
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<contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Aizencang-Kane</surname><given-names>Perla</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1" />
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<pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2026-04-15">
<day>15</day>
<month>04</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>26</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
<fpage>31</fpage>
<lpage>38</lpage>
<abstract><p>This article explores the emergence of digital diasporas as a new conceptual dimension within diaspora and transnational studies. It examines how mass media, and particularly digital platforms and social networks, reshape the formation and articulation of diasporic communities in the digital age. While classical definitions of diaspora have traditionally emphasized dispersion and uprootedness, the concept of digital diaspora signals the emergence of new forms of immediacy, mediated proximity, and transnational belonging among conationals dispersed across different geographical locations. The article analyzes the intersection between migrants’ everyday practices and the digital sphere, highlighting how digital spaces have transformed dynamics of belonging, identity, and solidarity within diasporic communities. It further examines the expansion of citizenship in the digital realm, where social networks facilitate the construction of social capital and enable new forms of political engagement and transnational civic participation. By integrating insights from diaspora theory, transnational social space approaches, and media studies, the article conceptualizes digital diaspora as a reconfiguration of belonging, space, and citizenship within platformized digital environments.</p></abstract>
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<p>This article aims to explore a new conceptual dimension shaped by contemporary experience. Specifically, it examines the influence of mass media in general, and the emergence of the Internet and the use of social networks in particular, on the formation and articulation of new forms of diaspora: digital diasporas. 
While classical definitions of diaspora have traditionally emphasized dispersion and uprootedness, the concept of digital diaspora signals the emergence of new forms of immediacy and proximity among co-nationals living in different geographical locations.
The article analyzes the intersection between migrants’ everyday practices and the digital sphere, highlighting how digital spaces have transformed dynamics of belonging, identity, and solidarity within diasporic communities. Finally, it examines the expansion of the concept of citizenship in the digital realm, where social networks play a central role in the construction of social capital and the political empowerment of diasporas.</p>
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