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Is There a Home in Cyberspace?: The Internet in Migrants' Everyday Life and the Emergence of Global Communities - Rilegato

Libro 10 di 22: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

Greschke, Heike Mónika

 
9780415893121: Is There a Home in Cyberspace?: The Internet in Migrants' Everyday Life and the Emergence of Global Communities
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ISBN 10: 0415893127 ISBN 13: 9780415893121
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012

Sinossi

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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Informazioni sull'autore

Heike Mónika Greschke is a sociologist at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0415893127
ISBN 13 
9780415893121
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
264
Contatto del produttore
Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis
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