Title
Syrian refugees and information precarity.
Abstract
This study employed focus groups to examine the ways Syrian refugees living in a large refugee camp in Jordan are using cell phones to cope with information precarity, a condition of information instability and insecurity that may result in heightened exposure to violence. These refugees are found to experience information precarity in terms of technological and social access to relevant information; the prevalence of irrelevant, sometimes dangerous information; inability to control their own images; surveillance by the Syrian state; and disrupted social support.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1177/1461444815591967
NEW MEDIA & SOCIETY
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cell phone,Jordan,mobile phone,precarity,refugees,Syria
Social psychology,Refugee,Sociology,Precarity,Mobile phone,Gender studies,Social support,Focus group
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
2
1461-4448
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.48
1
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Melissa Wall110.82
madeline otis campbell210.48
Dana M. Janbek320.86