ISBN:
9780415893121
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Edition:
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge research in information technology and society 14
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Is There a Home in Cyberspace?
DDC:
302.23/1
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
How is global togetherness possible? How does the availability of the Internet alter migrants' everyday lives and senses of belonging? This book introduces an 'alien people' inhabiting a specific common virtual space in the World Wide Web, while the members of this space - most of them ethnic Paraguayans - are physically located in many different parts of the world. By developing an innovative and 'uniquely adequate' set of research methods, the author explores the interrelation of media and migration practices in their own right and sheds light not only on the living conditions of contemporar
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Preface to the English Edition; PART A Migration-Media-Everyday Life; 1 Introduction; 2 The Tragedy of Ycua Bolaños-Ethnographic Prelude; 3 The Making of Globality in Migrants' Mediatized Everyday Lives; 4 www.cibervalle.com-A Global Lifeworld 'à lo Paraguayo'; 5 Methodological Challenges and Book Structure; PART B Hopping-On-Hopping-Off: The Art of Positioning Ethnography in Global Landscapes; 6 Ethnographers on Their Way to World Society
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Multi-sited Ethnography-A Methodology for the Mediatized Global Society?8 Developments in Internet Research (and) Cultures; 9 A Tailor-Made Research Design for Cibervalle; PART C Social Landscapes of Cibervalle; 10 Paraguay: A (Hi)Story of Migration; 11 Where and With Whom to Drink Tereré†: Cibervalle 'Multi-sited'; PART D Cibervalle's Communicative Architecture; 12 How to Analyze Computer-Mediated Sociality; 13 Structure and Techno-Social Evolution of the Cibervalle Forum; 14 Global Togetherness in Cibervalle
Description / Table of Contents:
15 "Now the World is Watching You!"-How Cibervallers Once Became 'Global Players'Final Remarks; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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