Heike Mónika Greschke

Is There a Home in Cyberspace?

The Internet in Migrants' Everyday Life and the Emergence of Global Communities

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How does the availability of the internet alter migrants' everyday lives and senses of belonging? Drawing on the empirical case study of Paraguayan migrants, this book explores the interrelation of media and migration practices and sheds light on cultural meanings of digital media, shifting senses of belonging and emerging global forms of living together.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780415893121
• ISBN-10: 0415893127
• Artikelnr.: 32729426

Autorenporträt

Heike Mónika Greschke is a sociologist at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen.

Inhaltsangabe

Part A: Migration
Media
Everyday Life 1. Introduction 2. The Tragedy of Ycua Bolaños
Ethnographic Prelude 3. The Making of Globality in Migrants' Mediatized Everyday Lives 4. WWW.Cibervalle.com
A Global Lifeworld 'à lo Paraguayo' 5. Methodological Challenges and Book Structure Part B: Hopping
On
Hopping
Off: The Art of Positioning Ethnography in Global Landscapes 6. Ethnographers on Their Way to World Society 7. Multi
Sited Ethnography
A Methodology for the Mediatized Global Society? 8. Developments in Internet Research (and) Cultures 9. A Tailor
Made Research Design for Cibervalle Part C: Social Landscapes of Cibervalle 10. Paraguay: A (Hi)story of Migration 11. Where and with Whom to Drink Terere: Cibervalle 'Multi
Sited' Part D: Cibervalle's Communicative Architecture 12. How to Analyze Computer
Mediated Sociality 13. Structure and Techno
Social Evolution of the Cibervalle Forum 14. Global Togetherness in Cibervalle 15. "Now the World Is Watching You!"
How Cibervallers Once Became 'Global Players'. Final Remarks