The Diaspora of Pinterest

Image from: Venture Burn.

Diaspora, originally defined as the dispersion of Jews beyond Israel, now moved to a wider definition of the scattering of people from there home land. Pinterest is a way of linking these people together even thought there are worlds apart. The idea of linking people around the world together almost instantly.

During the gold rush era in Australia, many thousands of people with a variety of different cultures moved here. “The diasporic community can exert pressure on the younger generation to maintain traditions and connection to homelands.” (Kuttainen, 2015). 

The “community organisation that defines their cohesion.” (Ma Mung, 2005) relate to pinterest in the way that communities or groups are made from the same types of topics.

Reference

• Kuttainen, V. (2015). BA1002: Our Space: Networks, Narratives and the Making of Place, Lecture 7: People Networks.[Powerpoint Slides]. Retrieved from https://learnjcu.jcu.edu.au/
• Ma Mung, E. (2005) Diaspora, spatiality, identities. In W. Bosswick, & C. Husband. (Eds), Comparative European research in migration, diversity and identities (pp. 33-48). Spain: Univeristy of Deusto.