Migration, Diaspora and Information Technology in Global Societies

Leopoldina Fortunati is Professor of Sociology at the University of Udine. Raul Pertierra teaches at the University of the Philippines and at the Ateneo de Manila University. Jane Vincent joined the Digital World Research Centre at the University of Surrey as a Research Fellow in 2002 and has worked with them since 1998.

Preface: Mediating a Restless World Daniel Miller. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Migrations and Diasporas: Making Their World Elsewhere Leopoldina Fortunati, Raul Pertierra and Jane Vincent Theme 1: Conceptual Perspectives of Migrants in Post-Modern Societies 1. New Media, Migrations and Culture: From Multi to Interculture Giuseppe Mantovani 2. From English to New Englishes: Language Migration Towards New Paradigms Maria Bortoluzzi 3. Frame Setting of Contestable Categories: The Construction of Multiracial Identity in the Mass Media Alice Robbin Theme 2: Gender and Generation Intertwining with Migrations 4. Grandmothers, Girlfriends and Big Men: The Gendered Geographies of Jamaican Transnational Communication Heather Horst 5. Mobiles, Men and Migration: Mobile Communication and Everyday Multiculturalism in Australia Clifton Evers and Gerard Goggin 6. Australian Migrant Children: ICT Use and the Construction of Future Lives Lelia Green and Nahid Kabir Theme 3: Looking at the Migrations and Diasporas Through the Lens of the New Media 7. Diasporas, the New Media and the Globalized Homeland Raul Pertierra 8. Make Yourself at Home in www.ciberville.com: Meanings of Proximity and Togetherness in the Era of "Broadband Society" Heike Mnika Greschke 9. The Bulgarian-Language Media Diaspora Polina Stoyanova and Lilia Raycheva Theme 4: Religion, Mobility and Social Policies: How Migrants Use of the New Media Is Shaping Society 10. "God is Technology": Mediating the Sacred in the Congolese Diaspora David Garbin and Manuel A. Vsquez 11. Mediatized Migrants: Media Cultures and Communicative Networking in the Diaspora Andreas Hepp, Cigdem Bozdag and Laura Suna 12. ICT Adoption by Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in Europe: Overview of Quantitative Evidence and Discussion of Drivers Stefano Kluzer and Cristiano Codagnone Theme 5: A Case Study: China, Its Internal Migrations, Diasporas and Expatriates 13. Migrant Workers, New Media Technologies, and Decontextualization: A Preliminary Observation in Southern China Pui-lam Law 14. Floating Workers and Mobile QQ: The Struggle in the Search for Roots Chung-tai Cheng 15. Community Connections and ICT: The Chinese Community in Prato, Italy and Melbourne, Australia: Networks, ICTs and Chinese Diasporas Tom Denison and Graeme Johanson 16. Imagining China: Online Expatriates as "Bridge Bloggers" on the Chinese Internet David Kurt Herold