ABSTRACT
Computer-based and networked-enabled digital technologies such as the Internet, the World Wide Web, and mobile phones have become embedded in people’s everyday lives. At the transnational scale, scholars have examined the use of digital technologies to maintain ties and build communities across borders. In the case of forced migration experiences such as the Somalis, Information and Communication Technologies can play an important role in linking and connecting the dispersed community across borders and with the homeland, thus creating transnationality and a sense of cultural belonging. The chapter focuses on the role of digital technologies for building community at various scales. It provides empirical evidence on the use of digital technology by Canadian Ethnocultural and Immigrant Groups and the opportunities these technologies afford to forge linkages and build communities in place and across space. The survey findings indicate that the use of digital technologies is significant for transnational community building.
