Kurdish diaspora online : from imagined community to managing communities / Jowan Mahmod.
2016
HV640.5.K87
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Title
Kurdish diaspora online : from imagined community to managing communities / Jowan Mahmod.
Author
Mahmod, Jowan, author.
ISBN
9781137513472 (electronic book)
1137513470 (electronic book)
9781137513465
1137513462
1137513470 (electronic book)
9781137513465
1137513462
Published
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
HV640.5.K87
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.891597
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed September 22, 2016).
Series
Palgrave Macmillan series in international political communication.
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iPrint version: 9781137513465
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