Title: Migration and new media
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.
Subjects: Communication in families, International Communication, Social aspects, Interpersonal communication, Philippine Foreign workers, Women foreign workers, Family relationships, Technological innovations, Children of foreign workers, Foreign workers, Communication, international, Philippines, social conditions, Filipino Foreign workers, Southeast asia, social conditions, Travailleurs étrangers philippins, Relations familiales, Travailleuses étrangères, Enfants de travailleurs étrangers, Communication dans la famille, Communication interpersonnelle, Innovations, Aspect social, Communication internationale, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Labor, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Labor & Industrial Relations
Places: Philippines, Great Britain