The media of Diaspora / / edited by Karim H. Karim

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784080203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• ISBN: 1-134-46721-4; 1-134-46722-2; 1-280-54360-4; 0-203-38064-9; 0-203-38914-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Collana: Transnationalism
• Altri autori (Persone): KarimKarim H <1956-> (Karim Haiderali)
• Disciplina: 302.23/086/93
• Soggetti: Mass media and minorities; Transnationalism; Mass media - Technological innovations; Communication - Data processing
• 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 (p. [215]-232) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; The Media of Diaspora; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Mapping diasporic mediascapes; PART 1 Film, radio, television, video; 2 Nation, nostalgia and Bollywood In the tracks of a twice-displaced community; 3 Scattered voices, global vision Indigenous peoples and the new media nation; 4 Narrowcasting in diaspora: Middle Eastern television in Los Angeles; 5 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 makes8 Video and the Macedonians in Australia; 9 Actually existing hybridity: Vietnamese diasporic music video; PART 2 Computer-mediated communication; 10 Communication and diasporic Islam: a virtual ummah?; 11 Communication among knowledge diasporas: online magazines of expatriate Chinese students; 12 Globalisation and hybridity: the construction of Greekness on the Internet; 13 Rhodesians in hyperspace: the maintenance of a national and cultural identity; 14 The movement for a free Tibet: cyberspace and the ambivalence of cultural translation15 Ghanaian Seventh Day Adventists on and offline: problematising the virtual communities discourse; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.