Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace : The Internet, Minority Nationalism, and the Web of Identity.
Title:
Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace : The Internet, Minority Nationalism, and the Web of Identity.
Author:
Saunders, Robert A.
ISBN:
9781461633419
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (197 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Turning the Tables on Procrustes -- Part I The Color and Shape of a Cyberspatial World -- 1 From Bibles to Bollywood: Mass Media, Identity, and the State -- 2 Media Unbound: The Internet, Cyberspace, and Nationalism on the Web -- 3 New World (Dis)Orders: National Identity and Ethnic Politics in the Global Era -- Part II Homo-Cybericus-Genus and Species -- 4 Electronic Irredentists: Albanians Seeking Unity in Digital Space and Virtual Places -- 5 Post-Imperial Digerati: Near Abroad Russians Transcending Local Barriers via Global Technologies -- 6 Cybernetic Vanguard: The Roma's Use of the Web to Protect a Minority under Siege -- 7 Virtual Prophets: Ummahists and the Construction of a New Imagined Community -- Afterword: Toward a Cybernational Future? -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace examines the central role of the Internet in shaping national identity among stateless nations and national minorities in the twenty-first century. By creating new spaces for political discourse, alternative avenues for cultural production, and novel means of social organization, the author argues that the Web is remaking what it means to be part of nation.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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