[PDF] Digital Diaspora On The Web eBook

Author : Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 2009-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139475789

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In the first full-length scholarly study of the increasingly important phenomenon of digital diasporas, Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff examines how immigrants who still feel a connection to their country of origin use the internet. She argues that digital diasporas can ease security concerns in both the homeland and the host society, improve diaspora members' quality of life in the host society, and contribute to socio-economic development in the homeland. Drawing on case studies of nine digital diaspora organizations, Brinkerhoff's research supplies new empirical material regarding digital diasporas and their potential security and development impacts. She also explores their impact on identity negotiation, arguing that digital diasporas create communities and organizations that represent hybrid identities and encourage solidarity, identity, and material benefits among their members. The book also explores these communities' implications for policy and practice.

Author : Anna Everett
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 2009-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791477207

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Traces the rise of black participation in cyberspace.

Author : Jessica Retis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 35,54 MB
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1119236703

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A multidisciplinary, authoritative outline of the current intellectual landscape of the field. Over the past three decades, the term ‘diaspora’ has been featured in many research studies and in wider theoretical debates in areas such as communications, the humanities, social sciences, politics, and international relations. The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture explores new dimensions of human mobility and connectivity—presenting state-of-the-art research and key debates on the intersection of media, cultural, and diasporic studies This innovative and timely book helps readers to understand diasporic cultures and their impact on the globalized world. The Handbook presents contributions from internationally-recognized scholars and researchers to strengthen understanding of diasporas and diasporic cultures, diasporic media and cultural resources, and the various forms of diasporic organization, expression, production, distribution, and consumption. Divided into seven sections, this wide-ranging volume covers topics such as methodological challenges and innovations in diasporic research, the construction of diasporic identity, the politics of diasporic integration, the intersection of gender and generation with the diasporic condition, new technologies in media, and many others. A much-needed resource for anyone with interest diasporic studies, this book: Presents new and original theory, research, and essays Employs unique methodological and conceptual debates Offers contributions from a multidisciplinary team of scholars and researchers Explores new and emerging trends in the study of diasporas and media Applies a wide-ranging, international perspective to the subject Due to its international perspective, interdisciplinary approach, and wide range of authors from around the world, The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, lecturers, and researchers in areas that focus on the relationship of media and society, ethnic identity, race, class and gender, globalization and immigration, and other relevant fields.

Author : Radhika Gajjala
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 28,30 MB
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 178348117X

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When we work or play through digital technologies – we also live in them. Communities form, conversations and social movements emerge spontaneously and through careful offline planning. While we have used disembodied communication and transportation technologies in the past – and still do – we have never before actually synchronously inhabited these communicative spaces, routes and networks in quite the way we do now. Digital Diasporas engages conversations across a selection of contemporary (gendered) Indian identified networks online: “Desis” creating place through labour and affective network formation in secondlife, Indian (diasporic) women engaged in digital domesticity, to Indian digital feminists engaged in debate and dialogue through Twitter. Through particular conversations and ethnographic journeys and linking back to personal and South Asian histories of Internet mediation, Gajjala and her co-authors reveal how affect and gendered digital labour combine in the formation of global socio-economic environment.

Author : Hojeong Lee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1793625174

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Through a critical examination of the Korean diaspora in transnational contexts as a case study, Korean Digital Diaspora: Transnational Social Movements and Diaspora Identity unmasks the process of how people of the diaspora have built social interactions and communication with others online, how they have orchestrated social movements, and finally, how they have narrated and reshaped their diaspora identities in their everyday lives. Utilizing an ethnographical approach, including in-depth interviews, participant observation, and a field study in New York City and Philadelphia, Hojeong Lee delineates how digital media technology has expanded into a new form of diaspora, digital diaspora, within the Korean diaspora community, and how it has mobilized the social movements of Korean diaspora members. Accordingly, Korean diaspora members have begun to imagine their community as a transnational global diaspora. Korean Digital Diaspora concludes with an analysis of how the changed attitudes of diaspora members have also influenced how they define themselves and how they are reshaping their diaspora identities. This multi-site, three-year study reveals the nexus of media, individuals, and society, highlighting the transnational social movements of diaspora members.

Author : Andoni Alonso
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0874178169

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The explosion of digital information and communication technologies has influenced almost every aspect of contemporary life. Diasporas in the New Media Age is the first book-length examination of the social use of these technologies by emigrants and diasporas around the world. The eighteen original essays in the book explore the personal, familial, and social impact of modern communication technology on populations of European, Asian, African, Caribbean, Middle Eastern, and Latin American emigrants. It also looks at the role and transformation of such concepts as identity, nation, culture, and community in the era of information technology and economic globalization. The contributors, who represent a number of disciplines and national origins, also take a range of approaches—empirical, theoretical, and rhetorical—and combine case studies with thoughtful analysis. Diasporas in the New Media Age is both a discussion of the use of communication technologies by various emigrant groups and an engaging account of the immigrant experience in the contemporary world. It offers important insights into the ways that dispersed populations are using digital media to maintain ties with their families and homeland, and to create new communities that preserve their culture and reinforce their sense of identity. In addition, the book is a significant contribution to our understanding of the impact of technology on society in general.

Author : Dang Nguyen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 35,7 MB
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1003801978

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The computational turn in the social sciences and humanities has generated much excitement about the potential to refresh our approaches to the study of the techno-social. From natively digital to digitised data, researchers of digital diasporas increasingly find themselves working with a range of disparate digital objects. These digital objects can include anything from hyperlink to timestamps, from platform behavioural metrics such as react, share, or retweet to different media formats such as text, image, pre-recorded or livestreamed videos. Taking these disparate objects into account, this book introduces digital methods as research strategies not only for dealing with the ephemeral and unstable nature of tracing the diaspora with digital data, but also for reconceptualizing digital diasporas as assemblages and networks of more-than-human actors. The book also introduces a range of theoretical perspectives and methodological techniques to studying digital diasporas as contingent and processual hybrid collectives of heterogeneous material, cultural, and practice-based assemblages. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in the digital space and transnational communities.

Author : Farooq A. Kperogi
Publisher : Rochester Studies in African H
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1580469825

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In a disruptive media landscape characterized by the relentless death of legacy newspapers, Nigeria's Digital Diaspora shows that a country's transnational elite can shake its media ecosystem through distant online citizen journalism.

Author : Eunkyung Lee
Publisher :
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 20,43 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Korean American women
ISBN :

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This study explores an online community (www.MissyUSA.com) formed among female Korean im/migrants in the U.S. as an example of a digital diasporic space in the new media age. This study employed multiple research methods including in-depth interviews, textual analysis, and grounded theory and examined the conditions and role of this online community focusing on identity, community, and media culture. The findings show that for this ethnic gender online community, users' shared identity (i.e. being Korean, married, female, and living in the U.S.) is an important element in the formation and development of this online community, especially in the creation of a candid talking space--sokpuri--where they vent their innermost feelings about themselves and their lives in the U.S. Missy and Ajuma are the two gender identities found on MissyUSA. On the one hand, despite the consumerist origin and individualistic nature, some users embrace the missy image of a younger, independent, and modern woman. On the other hand, the spirited quality of the ajuma (less individualistic, active in sharing information and helping others) is well appreciated and identified as an empowering spirit for this online community. These women display differing attitudes and perceptions toward their ethnic identity depending on their length of residence and immigration status. MissyUSA has become a space that serves as an imagined community for users to (re)connect to their home country and that facilitate active discussion of identity negotiation leading to less essential ethnic identity perception based on transnational ties and hybrid cultural practices. This study found a weak sense of community with regard to MissyUSA, though they do recognize that the site has some communal functions, relating to access to customized information considered significant for success in their im/migrant lives: it is a network that provides resources, serves as a virtual dwelling place, and aids them with assimilation. While the Internet has become an important source for both home and host country media access, the yeone board has become a platform for a transnational culture and lifestyle. Thus, beyond their offline ethnic communities, this site enables them to create a digital diaspora for Korean female im/migrants based on active participation from a population of (Korean) "wi-tizens" (active female Internet users since the late 90s who are now married) in the U.S.

Author : Rainer Bauböck
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9089642382

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Diaspora & transnationalism are widely used concepts in academic & political discourses. Although originally referring to quite different phenomena, they increasingly overlap today. Such inflation of meanings goes hand in hand with a danger of essentialising collective identities. This book analyses this topic.