Screen LibraryMigration, diaspora, and information technology in global societies
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge research in information technology and society ; 12 |
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| Carrier Form: | xviii, 271 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780415887090 (hbk.) 0415887097 9780203148600 (hbk.) 0203148606 (ebk.) |
| Index Number: | G20 |
| CLC: |
G20-05 TP3-05 |
| Call Number: | G20-05/M636 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: migrations and diasporas : making their world elsewhere / Leopoldina Fortunati, Raul Pertierra and Jane Vincent -- New media, migrations, and culture : from multi to interculture / Giuseppe Mantovani -- From English to new Englishes : language migration towards new paradigms / Maria Bortoluzzi -- Frame setting of contestable categories : the construction of multiracial identity in the mass media / Alice Robbin -- Grandmothers, girlfriends, and big men : the gendered geographies of Jamaican transnational communication / Heather Horst -- Mobiles, men, and migration : mobile communication and everyday multiculturalism in Australia / Clifton Evers and Gerard Goggin -- Australian migrant children : ICT use and the construction of future lives / Lelia Green and Nahid Kabir -- Looking at the migrations and diasporas through the lens of the new media -- Diasporas, the new media and the globalized homeland / Raul Pertierra -- Make yourself at home in www.ciberville.com : meanings of proximity and togetherness in the era of "broadband society" / Heike Mónika Greschke -- The Bulgarian-language media diaspora / Polina Stoyanova and Lilia Raycheva -- Religion, mobility, and social policies : how migrants' use of the new media is shaping society -- "Sacred connections" : religious spaces, transnational communication, and the congolese diaspora / David Garbin and Manuel A. Vásquez -- Mediatized migrants : media cultures and communicative networking in the diaspora / Andreas Hepp, Cigdem Bozdag, and Laura Suna -- ICT adoption by immigrants and ethnic minorities in Europe : overview of quantitative evidence and discussion of drivers / Stefano Kluzer and Cristiano Codagnone -- A case study : China, its internal migrations, diasporas, and expatriates -- Migrant workers, new media technologies, and decontextualization : a preliminary observation in southern China / Pui-lam Law -- Floating workers and mobile QQ : the struggle in the search for roots / Chung-tai Cheng -- Community connections and ICT : the Chinese community in Prato, Italy and Melbourne, Australia : networks, ICTs and Chinese diasporas / Tom Denison and Graeme Johanson -- Imagining China : online expatriates as "bridge bloggers" on the Chinese internet / David Kurt Herold. |