Migration and new media
Subtitle: transnational families and polymedia
By: Mirca Madianou and Daniel Miller
Contributors: Miller, Daniel, 1954-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780415679282; 9780415679299; 9780203154236
Subjects: Communication in families; International Communication; Social aspects; Interpersonal communication; Philippine Foreign workers; Women foreign workers; Family relationships; Technological innovations; Children of foreign workers
Description: "The way in which families maintain long distance communication when they are separated because of migration has been revolutionised by the emergence of a variety of internet- and mobile phone-based platforms. These platforms have created a new communicative environment, which the authors call 'polymedia'. This book draws on a long-term ethnographic study of prolonged separation between transnational Filipino migrant mothers in the UK and their left-behind children in the Philippines. It is unique in the way it provides firstly a theory of the new experience of media itself, as polymedia. This is complemented by a theory of relationships based on an analysis of mother-child communication. The authors seek to go beyond both media studies and anthropology to construct a new theory of mediated relationships that combines findings from both disciplines and has considerable importance for the social sciences more generally."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Philippines and globalisation : migration, mothering and communications; title: Why they go and why they stay; title: Letters and cassettes; title: The mothers' perspective; title: The children's perspective; title: The technology of relationships; title: Polymedia; title: A theory of mediated relationships.