Open AccessNegotiating the Digital Vā: Emerging Pacific Scholars and Community Building on Twitter
Author(s) -
Patrick Thomsen,
Lana Lopesi,
Gregory Pōmaikaʻi Gushiken,
Leah Damm,
Kevin Lujan Lee,
Emmaline Pickering-Martin,
Fetaui Iosefo,
Sereaepi,
Litia Tuiburelevu
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of new zealand studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.102
0eISSN - 2324-3740
pISSN - 1176-306X
DOI - 10.26686/jnzs.ins33.7388
Subject(s) - negotiation , social media , publishing , media studies , power (physics) , narrative , sociology , project commissioning , thematic analysis , digital media , political science , social science , qualitative research , law , art , physics , quantum mechanics , literature
Although the power of social media to bring people together across borders is acknowledged, very little has been written about the potential of social media sites for emerging Pacific scholars living transnationally across our region and beyond. We deploy thematic talanoa to demonstrate how emerging Pacific scholars engage Twitter as a platform where routes and relationships are established and teu/tauhi in the digital vā. Furthermore, we argue that emerging scholars of Pacific heritage are building an augmented reality founded on Pacific-specific ways of relationship building, forming external to, and in response to, marginalising dominant narratives inside and outside Pacific worlds.