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The Media of Diaspora »

Authors: Karim H. Karim
ISBN-13: 9780415279307, ISBN-10: 0415279305
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: April 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Karim H. Karim

Book Synopsis

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.

	List of contributors
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
1	Mapping diasporic mediascapes	1
2	Nation, nostalgia and Bollywood: in the tracks of a twice-displaced community	21
3	Scattered voices, global vision: indigenous peoples and the new media nation	36
4	Narrowcasting in diaspora: Middle Eastern television in Los Angeles	51
5	Mi programa es su programa: tele/visions of a Spanish-language diaspora in North America	63
6	Diaspora, homeland and communication technologies	76
7	Banal transnationalism: the difference that television makes	89
8	Video and the Macedonians in Australia	105
9	Actually existing hybridity: Vietnamese diasporic music video	119
10	Communication and diasporic Islam: a virtual ummah?	135
11	Communication among knowledge diasporas: online magazines of expatriate Chinese students	148
12	Globalisation and hybridity: the construction of Greekness on the Internet	162
13	Rhodesians in hyperspace: the maintenance of a national and cultural identity	177
14	The movement for a free Tibet: cyberspace and the ambivalence of cultural translation	189
15	Ghanaian Seventh Day Adventists on and offline: problematising the virtual communities discourse	203
	Bibliography	215
	Index	233

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