Migration and new media : transnational families and polymedia / / Mirca Madianou and Daniel Miller

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457674503321
• Autore: Madianou Mirca
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-136-57758-0; 0-203-15423-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MillerDaniel <1954->
• Disciplina: 331.40941
• Soggetti: Foreign workers, Philippine - Family relationships - Great Britain; Women foreign workers - Family relationships - Great Britain; Children of foreign workers - Family relationships - Philippines; Communication in families - Philippines; Interpersonal communication - Technological innovations - Social aspects - Philippines; Communication, International - Technological innovations - Social aspects - Philippines; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: MIGRATION AND NEW MEDIA Transnational families and polymedia; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 The Philippines and globalisation: migration, mothering and communications; 3 Why they go - and why they stay; 4 Letters and cassettes; 5 The mothers' perspective; 6 The children's perspective; 7 The technology of relationships; 8 Polymedia; 9 A theory of mediated relationships; Appendix: a note on method; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "The way in which families maintain long distance communication when they are separated because of migration has been revolutionised by the emergence of a variety of internet- and mobile phone-based platforms. These platforms have created a new communicative environment, which the authors call 'polymedia'. This book draws on a long-term ethnographic study of prolonged separation between transnational Filipino migrant mothers in the UK and their left-behind children in the ; Philippines. It is unique in the way it provides firstly a theory of the new experience of media itself, as polymedia. This is complemented by a theory of relationships based on an analysis of mother-child communication. The authors seek to go beyond both media studies and anthropology to construct a new theory of mediated relationships that combines findings from both disciplines and has considerable importance for the social sciences more generally."--Publisher's description.