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Is There a Home in Cyberspace?: The Internet in Migrants' Everyday Life and the Emergence of Global Communities: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

Autor Heike Mónika Greschke
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 mai 2012
How is global togetherness possible? How does the availability of the Internet alter migrants' everyday lives and senses of belonging? This book introduces an 'alien people' inhabiting a specific common virtual space in the World Wide Web, while the members of this space - most of them ethnic Paraguayans - are physically located in many different parts of the world.
By developing an innovative and 'uniquely adequate' set of research methods, the author explores the interrelation of media and migration practices in their own right and sheds light not only on the living conditions of contemporary (Paraguayan) migrants, but also on emerging global forms of living together. The concentration on a single case facilitates an in-depth understanding of contemporary migration practices, cultural meanings of digital media and senses of belonging.
The book discusses empirical data, methods and theoretical concepts in a reflexive writing style, allowing readers to follow the research process, and to learn from its choices and challenges which are rarely visible in most research reports. The reflexive research procedure contributes not only to the understanding of social realities in the light of globalization, but also to an advancement of sociological methods and concepts for researching social phenomena in global landscapes and mediatization.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415893121
ISBN-10: 0415893127
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: 31 b/w images, 38 tables, 28 halftones and 3 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.65 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

Part A: MigrationMediaEveryday Life  1. Introduction  2. The Tragedy of Ycua Bolaños – Ethnographic Prelude  3. The Making of Globality in Migrants’ Mediatized Everyday Lives  4. WWW.Cibervalle.com—A Global Lifeworld ‘à lo Paraguayo’  5. Methodological Challenges and Book Structure Part B: Hopping-On – Hopping-Off: The Art of Positioning Ethnography in Global Landscapes  6. Ethnographers on Their Way to World Society  7. Multi-Sited Ethnography – A Methodology for the Mediatized Global Society?  8. Developments in Internet Research (and) Cultures  9. A Tailor-Made Research Design for Cibervalle  Part C: Social Landscapes of Cibervalle  10. Paraguay: A (Hi)story of Migration  11. Where and with Whom to Drink Terere: Cibervalle ‘Multi-Sited’  Part D: Cibervalle’s Communicative Architecture  12. How to Analyze Computer-Mediated Sociality  13. Structure and Techno-Social Evolution of the Cibervalle Forum  14. Global Togetherness in Cibervalle  15. "Now the World Is Watching You!" – How Cibervallers Once Became ‘Global Players’.  Final Remarks

Descriere

How does the availability of the internet alter migrants' everyday lives and senses of belonging? Drawing on the empirical case study of Paraguayan migrants, this book explores the interrelation of media and migration practices and sheds light on cultural meanings of digital media, shifting senses of belonging and emerging global forms of living together.