Kurdish Diaspora Online: From Imagined Community To Managing Communities (the Palgrave Macmillan Series In International Political Communication)
by Jowan Mahmod /
2016 / English / PDF
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The argument offered in this book is that new technology, as
opposed to traditional media such as television, radio, and
newspaper, is working against the national grain to weaken its
imagined community. Online activities and communications between
people and across borders suggest that digital media has strong
implications for different articulations of identity and
belongingness, which open new ways of thinking about the imagined
community. The findings are based on transnational activities by
Kurdish diaspora members across borders that have pushed them to
rethink notions of belonging and identity. Through a
multidisciplinary and comparative approach, and multifaceted
(online-offline) methodologies, the book unveils tensions between
new and old media, and how the former is not only changing social
relations but also exposing existing ones. Living in two or more
cultures, speaking multiple languages, and engaging in
transnational practices, diaspora individuals may have created a
momentum that discloses how the imagined nation is diminishing in
this digital era.
The argument offered in this book is that new technology, as
opposed to traditional media such as television, radio, and
newspaper, is working against the national grain to weaken its
imagined community. Online activities and communications between
people and across borders suggest that digital media has strong
implications for different articulations of identity and
belongingness, which open new ways of thinking about the imagined
community. The findings are based on transnational activities by
Kurdish diaspora members across borders that have pushed them to
rethink notions of belonging and identity. Through a
multidisciplinary and comparative approach, and multifaceted
(online-offline) methodologies, the book unveils tensions between
new and old media, and how the former is not only changing social
relations but also exposing existing ones. Living in two or more
cultures, speaking multiple languages, and engaging in
transnational practices, diaspora individuals may have created a
momentum that discloses how the imagined nation is diminishing in
this digital era.
