Cybermigration

Abstract

The speed and intensity of communication and information flows define a media space that today is flanked by geographical space, but without replacing it. A process of deterritorialization of space and time is underway: anyone born in the second half of the twentieth century is a migrant because they move, physically and virtually, from one culture to another, in a liquid, fragmented, and participatory way. The evolution of the World Wide Web has created a social space without borders that facilitates communication between immigrant communities geographically dispersed all over the globe. The constant mediation and mediatization, the exchange of content through social media from home to host country, the construction of a migration project through chat, online news, and mobile applications have created a new form of global human mobility that could be defined as “cybermigration.”