Migration and new media : Transnational families and polymedia
Material type: TextPublication details: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012Description: vii, 175 pISBN: 9780415679282 (hc : alk. paper); 0415679281 (hc : alk. paper); 9780415679299 (pbk : alk. paper); 041567929X (pbk : alk. paper); 9780203154236 (ebk : alk. paper); 0203154231 (ebk : alk. paper)Subject(s): Foreign workers, Filipino | Women foreign workers | Children of foreign workers | Communication in families | Interpersonal communication | Communication, InternationalDDC classification: 331.40941 Summary: "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.Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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"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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