Arif Anwar CSSE 2011 May 31, 2011 Fredericton, NB, Canada
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Arif Anwar CSSE 2011 May 31, 2011 Fredericton, NB, Canada
Strong Ties - Intra-ethnic - Familial - Intra-community - Internal: Newcomer-Newcomer
Weak Ties - Inter-ethnic - Non-familial - Inter-community - External: Newcomer-non-Newcomer
*‘Strong’ or ‘Weak’ refers to the nature of the ties, not the quality. Ties can be strong, weak or absent.
One individual precipitates
“Strong” Ties
“Weak” Ties Country of migration
As ‘weak’ hydrogen bonds hold huge water molecules together weak ties have important implications for social and economic mobility
Most job offers come through acquaintances, not friends (Granovetter, 1973)
Positive correlation between number of weak ties and aggregate wage and employment rates (Montgomery, 1992)
The strong social networks that await Newcomers in Canada can be detrimental for diverse job opportunities.
Newcomers may be unaware of other resources as well
Newcomers: information poor
Non-newcomers: information rich
Tool for: - Social networking - Microblogging
‘SMS of the Internet’
Quick bursts of information
Free
Low-tech/simple (relatively)
Ability to group message
All you need is a cell phone
Really, all you need is a cell phone, you DO NOT need an ‘Internet phone’, no data plan required, period.
Growing faster than any other consumer electronics
Cheap
Widely available
Worldwide numbers: 6 billion+
A first-line for information dissemination and immediate response
Twitter replicates real-word social networks (you may want to follow...)
Informal survey of information rich non-newcomers such as community organizers and
Identify viable, key knowledge network in which intervention could be situated ◦ Focus group to determine information to be
disseminated Intervention Evaluation ◦ New survey and focus groups ◦ Analyze twitter stream for content of exchanges
Extrapolate findings to a wider range of learning contexts and communities
Youth ‘navigators’ for Newcomer communities Equipped with Twitter, Facebook and Blogs Served as information-rich ‘nodes’ for other
newcomers Project date Summer 2010 – March 2011 Findings TBP 2011
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