1st Edition

The Media of Diaspora Mapping the Globe

Edited By Karim H. Karim Copyright 2003
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    1. Mapping Diasporic Mediascapes  Section I. Film, Radio, Television, Video 2. National, Nostalgia and Bollywood: In the tracks of Twice-Displaced Community  3. Scattered Voices, Global Vision: Indigenous Peoples and the New Media Nation  4. Narrowcasting in Diaspora: Middle Eastern Television in Los Angeles  5. Mi Programa es su Programa: Tele/Visions of a Spanish-Language Diaspora in North America  6. Diaspora, Homeland and Communication Technologies  7. Banal Transnationalism: The Difference that Television Makes  8. Video and Macedonians in Australia  9. Actually Existing Hybridity: Vietnamese Diasporic Music Video  Section II Computer Mediated Communication  10. Communication and Diasporic Islam: A Virtual Ummah?  11. Globalization and Hybridity: The Construction of Greekness on the Internet  13. Rhodesians in Hyperspace: The Maintenance of national and cultural identity  14. The Movements for Free Tibet: Cyberspace and the Ambivalence of Cultural Translation 15. Ghanaian Seventh Day Adventists On and Offline: Problematising the Virtual Communities Discourse

    Biography

    Karim H. Karim is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carlton University in Ottawa, Canada. He previously worked as a multiculturalsm policy analyst. His book Islamic Peril: Media and Global Violence won the 2001 Robinson Prize. He has also written on diasporic cummunication, the social contexts of technology, new media policies, multiculturalism, and social development in Muslim societies.