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This book forms part of a series of volumes concerned with describing and analysing a range of phenomena surrounding this field. Transnational practices and their consequent configurations of power are shaping the world of the twenty-first century. In some instances transnational forms and processes serve to speed up or exacerbate historical patterns of activity, in others they represent arguably new forms of human interaction. Despite great distances and notwithstanding the presence of international borders (and all the laws, regulations and national narratives they represent), many forms of association have been globally intensified and now take place paradoxically in a planet-spanning yet common arena of activity. New technologies, especially involving telecommunications, serve to connect such networks. Today myriad systems of relationship, exchange and mobility function intensively and in real time while being spread across the world. ‘Transnationalism’ broadly refers to multiple ties and interactions linking people or institutions across the borders of nation states. Transnationalism Series Editor: Steven Vertovec University of Oxford He has also written on diasporic communication, the social contexts of technology, new media policies, multiculturalism and social development in Muslim societies. His book Islamic Peril: Media and Global Violence won the 2001 Robinson Prize. He previously worked as a multiculturalism policy analyst. Karim is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University in Ottawa.
Readers interested in the areas of diaspora, ethnicity, community and transnational media, religious communication, globalisation and migration will find the discussions in this volume to be informative and thought-provoking. They address complex historical, social and cultural dynamics within Fiji Indian, Aboriginal, Arab, Armenian, Assyrian, Iranian, Jewish, Hispanic, Kurdish, Turkish, Macedonian, Vietnamese, Muslim, Chinese, Greek, Rhodesian, Tibetan and Ghanaian diaspora groups and their relationships with other groups. Contributors to this unique volume discuss critically the uses of media by transnational communities originating and residing in six continents. This collection of essays explores how transnational communities’ links and identities are maintained through film, television, videotape, Internet chatgroups and websites. Are the media of diasporas contributing to an alternative form of globalisation? Are transnational communities’ global networks encouraging the growth of a world citizenship? Are diasporic media a threat to national governments and international security? Do diasporic media contribute to the fragmentation of national communities and international order? The Media of Diaspora examines how diasporic communities have used communications media to maintain and develop community ties on a local and transnational level.
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