ABSTRACT

The Media of Diaspora examines how diasporic communities have used new communications media to maintain and develop community ties on a local and transnational level. This collection of essays from a wide range of different diasporic contexts is a unique contribution to the field.

part |114 pages

Part 1 Film, radio, television, video

chapter 2|15 pages

Nation, nostalgia and Bollywood

In the tracks of a twice-displaced community

chapter 3|15 pages

Scattered voices, global vision

Indigenous peoples and the new media nation 1

chapter 4|12 pages

Narrowcasting in diaspora

Middle Eastern television in Los Angeles 1

chapter 5|13 pages

Mi programa es su programa

Tele/visions of a Spanish-language diaspora in North America

chapter 7|16 pages

Banal transnationalism

The difference that television makes 1

chapter 9|14 pages

Actually existing hybridity

Vietnamese diasporic music video

part |82 pages

Part 2 Computer-mediated communication

chapter 10|13 pages

Communication and diasporic Islam

A virtual ummah?

chapter 11|13 pages

Communication among knowledge diasporas

Online magazines of expatriate Chinese students

chapter 12|15 pages

Globalisation and hybridity

The construction of Greekness on the Internet

chapter 13|12 pages

Rhodesians in hyperspace

The maintenance of a national and cultural identity 1

chapter 14|14 pages

The movement for a free Tibet

Cyberspace and the ambivalence of cultural translation

chapter 15|12 pages

Ghanaian Seventh Day Adventists on and offline

Problematising the virtual communities discourse