ISBN:
9780203148600
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (291 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.4833
Keywords:
Internet and immigrants
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Migrants and diaspora communities are shaped by their use of information and communication technologies. This book explores the multifaceted role played by new media in the re-location of these groups of people, assisting them in their efforts to defeat nostalgia, construct new communities, and keep connected with their communities of origin. Furthermore, the book analyses the different ways in which migrants contribute, along with natives, in co-constructing contemporary societies - a process in which the cultures of both groups are considered. Drawing on contributions from a range of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, psychology and linguistics, it offers a more profound understanding of one of the most significant phenomena of contemporary international societies - the migration of nearly a billion people worldwide - and the relationship between technology and society.
Abstract:
Intro -- Migration, Diaspora and Information Technology in Global Societies -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Foreword -- Preface: Mediating a Restless World -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Migrations and Diasporas-Making Their World Elsewhere -- THEME 1: Conceptual Perspectives of Migrants in Post-Modern Societies -- 1 New Media, Migrations and Culture: From Multi- to Interculture -- 2 From English to New Englishes: Language Migration Towards New Paradigms -- 3 Frame Setting of Contestable Categories: The Construction of Multiracial Identity in the Mass Media -- THEME 2: Gender and Generation Intertwining with Migrations -- 4 Grandmothers, Girlfriends and Big Men: The Gendered Geographies of Jamaican Transnational Communication -- 5 Mobiles, Men and Migration: Mobile Communication and Everyday Multiculturalism in Australia -- 6 Australian Migrant Children: ICT Use and the Construction of Future Lives -- THEME 3: Looking at the Migrations and Diasporas Through the Lens of the New Media -- 7 Diasporas, the New Media and the Globalized Homeland -- 8 Make Yourself at Home in www.cibervalle.com: Meanings of Proximity and Togetherness in the Era of "Broadband Society" -- 9 The Bulgarian-Language Media Diaspora -- THEME 4: Religion, Mobility and Social Policies: How Migrants' Use of the New Media Is Shaping Society -- 10 "God is Technology": Mediating the Sacred in the Congolese Diaspora -- 11 Mediatized Migrants: Media Cultures and Communicative Networking in the Diaspora -- 12 ICT Adoption by Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in Europe: Overview of Quantitative Evidence and Discussion of Drivers -- THEME 5: A Case Study: China, Its Internal Migrations, Diasporas and Expatriates -- 13 Migrant Workers, New Media Technologies, and Decontextualization: A Preliminary Observation in Southern China.
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