ISBN:
9780739141946
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 208 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace : The Internet, Minority Nationalism, and the Web of Identity
DDC:
302.23/1089
Keywords:
Mass media and international relations
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Internet Political aspects
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World Wide Web Political aspects
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Mass media and culture
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Politics and culture
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Political anthropology
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Massenkultur
;
Hochschulschrift
Abstract:
Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace examines the central role of the Internet in shaping national identity among stateless nations and national minorities in the twenty-first century. By creating new spaces for political discourse, alternative avenues for cultural production, and novel means of social organization, the author argues that the Web is remaking what it means to be part of nation
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Turning the Tables on Procrustes; Part I: The Color and Shape of a Cyberspatial World; Chapter 1: From Bibles to Bollywood: Mass Media, Identity, and the State; Chapter 2: Media Unbound: The Internet, Cyberspace, and Nationalism on the Web; Chapter 3: New World (Dis)Orders: National Identity and Ethnic Politics in the Global Era; Part II: Homo-Cybericus-Genus and Species; Chapter 4: Electronic Irredentists: Albanians Seeking Unity in Digital Space and Virtual Places
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 5: Post-Imperial Digerati: Near Abroad Russians Transcending Local Barriers via Global TechnologiesChapter 6: Cybernetic Vanguard: The Roma's Use of the Web to Protect a Minority under Siege; Chapter 7: Virtual Prophets: Ummahists and the Construction of a New Imagined Community; Afterword: Toward a Cybernational Future?; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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