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With Internet access and social media uses accelerating in the Global South, in-depth studies of just how non-western communities, at home and living abroad, actually use the Internet and web-based media are still under-charted. This book’s pioneering use of virtual ethnography and mixed method research in this study of a longstanding ‘media diaspora’ incorporates online participant-observation with offline fieldwork to explore how postcolonial diasporas from the south Pacific have been using the Internet since the early ways of the web. Through a critical reconsideration of the work of Michel de Certeau in light of postcolonial and feminist theories, the book provides insights into the practice of everyday life in a global and digital age by non-western participants online and offline.
Critical of techno- and media-centric analyses of cyberspatial practices and power hierarchies, Franklin argues that a closer look at the content and communicative styles of contemporary Pacific traversals as first-generation ' social media' communities suggest other Internet futures, online spaces that can be more hospitable, culturally inclusive and economically equitable than those promulgated by powerful commercial interests and state actors looking to colonize everyday life online.
Critical of techno- and media-centric analyses of cyberspatial practices and power hierarchies, Franklin argues that a closer look at the content and communicative styles of contemporary Pacific traversals as first-generation ' social media' communities suggest other Internet futures, online spaces that can be more hospitable, culturally inclusive and economically equitable than those promulgated by powerful commercial interests and state actors looking to colonize everyday life online.
Originele taal-2 | English |
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Uitgeverij | Routledge |
Aantal pagina's | 272 |
ISBN van elektronische versie | 9780203448991 |
ISBN van geprinte versie | 9780415459907, 9780415339407 |
DOI's | |
Status | Published - 2004 |
Extern gepubliceerd | Ja |