Emily Noelle Ignacio

Building Diaspora

Filipino Community Formation on the Internet

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Produktbeschreibung

Emily Noelle Ignacio explores how Filipinos have used the Internet's subtle, cyber, but very real social connections to construct and reinforce a sense of national, ethnic, and racial identity with distant others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 167mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780813535142
• ISBN-10: 081353514X
• Artikelnr.: 21583575

Autorenporträt

EMILY NOELLE IGNACIO is an assistant professor of sociology at Loyola University in Chicago. She has published articles on the effect of media technologies on communities in the Sociological Quarterly, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, and Library Trends.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface : Why Filipinos?
Introduction : Filipino Community Formation on the Internet
Problematizing Diaspora : If Nation, Culture, and Homeland Are Constructed,
Why Bother with Diasporic Identity?
Selling Out One's Culture : The Imagined Homeland and Authenticity
"Ain't I a Filipino (Woman)?" : Filipina as Gender Marker
Laughter in the Rain : Jokes as Membership and Resistance
E Pluribus or E Pluribus Unum? : Can There Be Unity in Diversity?
Appendix A : Studying the Definition of "Filipino"
Appendix B : You May be Married to a Filipina if
Appendix C : Are You Really Filipino?