Andrew - in what sense are you studying national identity through digital technologies? here's a bunch of references that address in some fashion the connection between gender, diaspora, class, religion and national identities: Rai, A. S. (1995). India on-line: Electronic bulletin boards and the construction of a diasporic Hindu identity. Diaspora, 4(1), 31-57. Sudha, S. (1993). Compu-Devata: Electronic bulletin boards and political debates. SAMAR: South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection, 2, 4-10. Mallapragada, M. (2001, April 6-7). Indian women in the U.S. diaspora and the "Curry Brigade": The politics of nation, gender and sexuality on the Web. Paper presented at the conference "Constructing cyberculture(s): Performance, pedagogy, and politics in online spaces," University of Maryland, College Park. [she has an essay in the book "Webstudies" too] Mitra, A. (1997). Virtual commonality: Looking for India on the Internet. In S. Jones (Ed.), Virtual culture: Identity and communication in cybersociety (pp. 55-79). London: Sage. Gajjala, R (November 2002) Interrogating Identities: Composing Other Cyber-spaces International and Intercultural Communication Annual, Volume 25 Lal, V. (1999b). The politics of history on the Internet: Cyber-diasporic Hinduism and the North American Hindu diaspora. Diaspora, 8(2), 137-172. Bahri, D. (2001). The digital diaspora: South Asians in the new pax electronica. In M. Paranjpe (Ed.), In diaspora: Theories, histories, texts (pp. 222-232). New Delhi: Indialog. At 01:03 PM 4/15/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Friends-
I am developing a course on the mediation of national identity through digital communications technology and am wondering if the good folks at/in AOIR can point in the direction of some good scholarly work in this area. I am aware of the work that David Morley and Kevin Robbins have dome on Eurpean identites in terms of broadcast media as well as the work of Jody Berland on Canada but am drawing blanks otherwise. references to/about Canada, especially comparing the US and Canada would be most appreciated.
Andrew
Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology College of the Holy Cross Worcester, MA 01610 (508) 793-2531
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