ABSTRACT
This article discusses how the mediation of identities and technical qualities cross migrant experiences of social uses of media, especially digital and network media. The text starts from a theoretical review on notions of identities in Diaspora and from the perspective of mediations to support the analysis of media appropriations by Senegalese migrants in Rio Grande do Sul. The methodological strategies are established from the insertion in a complex and multi-situated research field that embraces communication dynamics built in a transnational way, through communication practices and processes that take place between online and offline instances. As a result, it is clear that the multiple social uses of media by Senegalese migrants assume tactical meanings of social participation, building self-narratives, maintaining links, creating support networks, redefining the diasporic experience and migrant citizenship, with an emphasis on anti-racist policies.
migrations; social uses of media; mediations; network communication; Senegal