The Media of Diaspora

Mapping the Globe
Herausgeber: Karim, Karim H

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays from a wide range of different contexts examines how diasporic communities have used new communications media to maintain and develop community ties on a local and transnational level.

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The Media of Diaspora examines how diasporic communities have used new communications media to maintain and develop community ties on a local and transnational level. This collection of essays from a wide range of different diasporic contexts is a unique contribution to the field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9780415279307
• ISBN-10: 0415279305
• Artikelnr.: 21613872

Autorenporträt

Karim H. Karim is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carlton University in Ottawa, Canada. He previously worked as a multiculturalsm policy analyst. His book Islamic Peril: Media and Global Violence won the 2001 Robinson Prize. He has also written on diasporic cummunication, the social contexts of technology, new media policies, multiculturalism, and social development in Muslim societies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Mapping Diasporic Mediascapes Section I. Film, Radio, Television, Video
2. National, Nostalgia and Bollywood: In the tracks of Twice-Displaced
Community 3. Scattered Voices, Global Vision: Indigenous Peoples and the
New Media Nation4. Narrowcasting in Diaspora: Middle Eastern Television in
Los Angeles5. Mi Programa es su Programa: Tele/Visions of a
Spanish-Language Diaspora in North America 6. Diaspora, Homeland and
Communication Technologies 7. Banal Transnationalism: The Difference that
Television Makes 8. Video and Macedonians in Australia9. Actually Existing
Hybridity: Vietnamese Diasporic Music Video Section II Computer Mediated
Communication 10. Communication and Diasporic Islam: A Virtual Ummah?11.
Globalization and Hybridity: The Construction of Greekness on the Internet
13. Rhodesians in Hyperspace: The Maintenance of national and cultural
identity14. The Movements for Free Tibet: Cyberspace and the Ambivalence of
Cultural Translation 15. Ghanaian Seventh Day Adventists On and Offline:
Problematising the Virtual Communities Discourse