ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the interrelations between diaspora social media practices and their transnational political participation beyond traditional institutional frameworks. Social media, in its social networking sites form, is being regarded as a channel for political participation and, as reviewed by John Postill, increasingly becoming the subject of politics and activism scientific research. The challenge of addressing connected migrants is rooted in their current dynamic territories, where, according to Diminescu when introducing the digital method, communities of diaspora are dispersed geographically but connect, collaborate, communicate, and cohabit digital spaces. The building blocks of digital diasporas, according to Laguerre, are immigration, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) connectivity, and networking, which make the process of engaging with others operational. The Argentine diaspora autoconvocados case provides empirical data to question the conformation of diasporas political transnational practices in a context of profound socio-political and communicative technologies changes.
