I know Barry asked replies to go to him rather than the list, but I think this might be of interest to others, so I'm sending it to the list ... Ananda Mitra, "Virtual Commonality: Looking for India on the Internet," in Steve Jones, ed, Virtual Culture: Identity and Communication in Cybersociety. Madhavi Mallapragada, "The Indian Diaspora in the USA and Around the Web," David Gauntlett, editor, Web.Studies: Rewiring Media Studies for the Digital Age. david silver http://faculty.washington.edu/dsilver/
I'd be grateful if anyone could point me to their (or others') work about how the Internet links trans-national diasporic communities where some folks have migrated from the home country and others haven't. I'm mostly interested in email, but also Internet phone, web boards, Usenet, et al.