@article{1444612,
      note = {Includes index.},
      author = {Ngwainmbi, Emmanuel K.,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1444612},
      title = {Dismantling cultural borders through social media and  digital communications : how networked communities  compromise identity /},
      abstract = {This book explores how social media and its networked  communities dismantles, builds, and shapes identity. Social  media has been instrumental, sometimes dangerously so, in  binding together different communities; with thirteen  original chapters by leading academics in the field, the  volume investigates how belonging, togetherness, and  loyalty is created in the digital sphere, in a way that  transcends, and even dismantles, ethnic and national  borders around the world. In tandem, the volume analyses  the further threats to identity presented by the ease with  which fabricated news and information spreads on social  media, resulting in many users becoming unable to  distinguish credible data from junk data. Social media is  both creative and destructive in its influence on identity,  and therefore the growing fake news crisis threatens the  very stability of the worlds communities. This book  provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest  empirical research findings in the area, including diverse  case studies and analyses of social media experiences in  indigenous and urban communities around the world,  including China, Africa, and Central and South America.  Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi is a Professor in the Department of  Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at  Charlotte, USA.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92212-2},
      recid = {1444612},
      pages = {1 online resource},
}