Week 9 Blog Post

In the chapter titled, “Social Transformations from Virtual Communities,” the chapter discusses the No-Nike labor rights campaign that emerged from the VNForum and how VNForum’s cofounder created a website (http://dotchuoinon.com) to connect with Vietnamese via the Internet. These are both important topics in the sense that the Vietnamese were trying out new ways to connect to the diasporic Vietnamese populations. This chapter is related to this week’s theme of Digital Age and Cyber Space because it shows how the VNForum and http://dotchuoinon.com became an important part of how Vietnamese people could connect with one another in times of diaspora. This chapter connects to events outside of class because the Internet is still the most widely used form of communication for diasporic populations to connect to one another.

Question: What other digital ways could diasporic populations connect with each other besides the Internet?

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Valverde, Kieu-­Linh Caroline. “Social Transformations from Virtual Communities.” Transnationalizing Viet Nam: Community, Culture, and Politics in the Diaspora. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

-Brittany Carlson