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Migration and new media : Transnational families and polymedia
"The way in which families maintain long distance communication when they are separated because of migration has been revolutionised by the emergence of a variety of internet- and mobile phone-based platforms. These platforms have created a new communicative environment, which the authors call...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge,
2012.
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| Sumari: | "The way in which families maintain long distance communication when they are separated because of migration has been revolutionised by the emergence of a variety of internet- and mobile phone-based platforms. These platforms have created a new communicative environment, which the authors call 'polymedia'. This book draws on a long-term ethnographic study of prolonged separation between transnational Filipino migrant mothers in the UK and their left-behind children in the Philippines. It is unique in the way it provides firstly a theory of the new experience of media itself, as polymedia. This is complemented by a theory of relationships based on an analysis of mother-child communication. The authors seek to go beyond both media studies and anthropology to construct a new theory of mediated relationships that combines findings from both disciplines and has considerable importance for the social sciences more generally."--Publisher's description. |
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| Descripció física: | vii, 175 p. ; |
| ISBN: | 9780415679282 (hc : alk. paper) 0415679281 (hc : alk. paper) 9780415679299 (pbk : alk. paper) 041567929X (pbk : alk. paper) 9780203154236 (ebk : alk. paper) 0203154231 (ebk : alk. paper) |