Multiples uses of ICTs by Mexican immigrants organizations in Chicago.

Abstract

This paper is about how organizations focused on Mexican immigrants in Chicago have been used the ITCs (Information and Communication Technologies. Shouldn´t they be then called ICTs? Please double check). Our goal is to identify the organization and structure of the spaces created by Mexican diasporas in the Internet (called webdiasporas) and verify which particular group makes use of them, which narrative elements are used for identification and positioning in the transnational, intercultural and multi-territorial contexts. To do it, we used semi-structured interviews with members of Mexican immigrant organizations and a content and discursive analysis of their websites, Facebook pages and others web platforms used by them – in a qualitative approach. We find that the webdiaspora is a reflex of personal and presential movements and actions of these organizations and serves, at the same time, as communitarian and an institutional media. As the cultural manifestations or activities of these groups, it serves as a tool of education about Mexican roots and a way to revive the past in original country.