Migration, diaspora and information technology in global societies [electronic resource] / edited by Leopoldina Fortunati, Raul Pertierra and Jane Vincent.
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TextSeries: Routledge research in information technology and society ; 12.Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2012. Edition: 1st edDescription: xviii, 271 p. : illISBN: 9780203148600 (e-book : PDF)Subject(s): Information technology -- Social aspects | Internet and immigrants | Identity (Psychology) and mass media | Communication and technologyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: No titleOnline resources: Click here to access online Also available in print edition.Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. New media, migrations and culture : from multi- to interculture / Giuseppe Mantovani -- 2. From English to new Englishes : language migration towards new paradigms / Maria Bortoluzzi -- 3. Frame setting of contestable categories : the construction of multiracial identity in the mass media / Alice Robbin -- 4. Grandmothers, girlfriends and big men : the gendered geographies of Jamaican transnational communication / Heather Horst -- 5. Mobiles, men and migration : mobile communication and everyday multiculturalism in Australia / Clifton Evers and Gerard Goggin -- 6. Australian migrant children : ICT use and the construction of future lives / Lelia Green and Nahid Kabir -- 7. Diasporas, the new media and the globalized homeland / Raul Pertierra -- 8. Make yourself at home in www.cibervalle.com : meanings of proximity and togetherness in the era of "broadband society" / Heike Mãaonika Greschke -- 9. The Bulgarian-language media diaspora / Polina Stoyanova and Lilia Raycheva -- 10. "God is technology" : mediating the sacred in the Congolese diaspora / David Garbin and Manuel A. Vãaasquez -- 11. Mediatized migrants : media cultures and communicative networking in the diaspora / Andreas Hepp, Cigdem Bozdag and Laura Suna -- 12. ICT adoption by immigrants and ethnic minorities in Europe : overview of quantitative evidence and discussion of drivers / Stefano Kluzer and Cristiano Codagnone -- 13. Migrant workers, new media technologies, and decontextualization : a preliminary observation in southern China / Pui-lam Law -- 14. Floating workers and mobile QQ : the struggle in the search for roots / Chung-tai Cheng -- 15. Community connections and ICT : the Chinese community in Prato, Italy and Melbourne, Australia : networks, ICTs and Chinese diasporas / Tom Denison and Graeme Johanson -- 16. Imagining China : online expatriates as "bridge bloggers" on the Chinese Internet / David Kurt Herold.
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