Migration, diaspora, and information technology in global societies
By: edited by Leopoldina Fortunati, Raul Pertierra, and Jane Vincent
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Routledge research in information technology and society -- 12
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780415887090
Subjects: Social aspects; Communication and technology; Information technology; Internet and immigrants; Identity (Psychology) and mass media
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: migrations and diasporas : making their world elsewhere / Leopoldina Fortunati, Raul Pertierra and Jane Vincent; title: New media, migrations, and culture : from multi to interculture / Giuseppe Mantovani; title: From English to new Englishes : language migration towards new paradigms / Maria Bortoluzzi; title: Frame setting of contestable categories : the construction of multiracial identity in the mass media / Alice Robbin; title: Grandmothers, girlfriends, and big men : the gendered geographies of Jamaican transnational communication / Heather Horst; title: Mobiles, men, and migration : mobile communication and everyday multiculturalism in Australia / Clifton Evers and Gerard Goggin; title: Australian migrant children : ICT use and the construction of future lives / Lelia Green and Nahid Kabir; title: Looking at the migrations and diasporas through the lens of the new media; title: Diasporas, the new media and the globalized homeland / Raul Pertierra; title: Make yourself at home in www.ciberville.com : meanings of proximity and togetherness in the era of "broadband society" / Heike Mónika Greschke; title: The Bulgarian-language media diaspora / Polina Stoyanova and Lilia Raycheva; title: Religion, mobility, and social policies : how migrants' use of the new media is shaping society; title: "Sacred connections" : religious spaces, transnational communication, and the congolese diaspora / David Garbin and Manuel A. Vásquez; title: Mediatized migrants : media cultures and communicative networking in the diaspora / Andreas Hepp, Cigdem Bozdag, and Laura Suna; title: ICT adoption by immigrants and ethnic minorities in Europe : overview of quantitative evidence and discussion of drivers / Stefano Kluzer and Cristiano Codagnone; title: A case study : China, its internal migrations, diasporas, and expatriates; title: Migrant workers, new media technologies, and decontextualization : a preliminary observation in southern China / Pui-lam Law; title: Floating workers and mobile QQ : the struggle in the search for roots / Chung-tai Cheng; title: Community connections and ICT : the Chinese community in Prato, Italy and Melbourne, Australia : networks, ICTs and Chinese diasporas / Tom Denison and Graeme Johanson; title: Imagining China : online expatriates as "bridge bloggers" on the Chinese internet / David Kurt Herold.