Query on Digitial Technology and National Identity
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
Andrew, This may be a bit peripheral, but Arjun Appadurai has looked media and national/local identities in the context of globalization. Try his book: Appadurai, Arjun. (1996) Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. --Amanda Amanda Lenhart Pew Internet & American Life Project alenhart@pewinternet.org At 01:03 PM 4/15/2003, you wrote:
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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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This book certainly covers the basics with respect to one culture - how Trinidadians define themselves with and without the Internet, especially covers how ex-pats have the possibility to retain their national ties through WWW. Miller, D. and D. Slater (2000). The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach. New York, New York University Press. ===== "Stupidity is not just a lack of content; it's also a process" Denise N. Rall, Sustainable Forestry Mentoring Coordinator & PhD student, School of Education, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW, 2480 Australia Phone +61-2-6624-8627 Fax +61-2-6624-8637 Office (Tuesdays) (02) 6620 3577 Mob 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/edu/research/deniserall/index.html __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search.yahoo.com
Hi all, Apologies for cross-postings On Line Opinion, Australia's e-journal of social and political debate (see www.onlineopinion.com.au) is seeking contributions to its May feature: "The Human Dimensions of Information Technology". Readership of the journal is focussed on Australian public policy but relevent international experience is, of course, very welcome. We're seeking 1000-word opinion-style (ie references to be included as hyperlinks and/or attribution) articles reporting on research and/or arguing the need for policy change regarding humanity's application(s) of and approach to IT of all kinds. Suggestions for resources that might be productively included as links are also welcome. Please note that OLO is *not* a peer-reviewed journal (in the traditional sense) and is currently published exclusively on line. See the footer of this message for our conditions of publication. I can be contacted as below for more information. Cheers, Hughie Hugh Brown Editor, On Line Opinion www.onlineopinion.com.au Ph +61 7 3852 2138 Mob +61 409 622 395 Fax +61 7 3252 9818 On Line Opinion publishes informed opinions about what's best for Australia's future. Our conditions of publication can be downloaded from http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/About/OLOContributorsAgreement_2.rtf. Please read these conditions carefully as they create legal rights and obligations. By submitting articles to us, contributors agree to be bound by the conditions.
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Andrew, i'd check out the work of Alex Halavais and Anthony Fung. Fung, A. (2002). Identity politics, resistance and new media technologies: A Foucauldian approach to the study of Hknet. New Media and Society 4(2). 185-204. Halavais, A. (2000). National borders on the World Wide Web. New Media and Society, 2(1). Winter. david On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Andrew Herman 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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Andrew, In regards to digital media and the negotiation of national identity, I have always found Ananda Mitra's article, "Virtual Commonality: Looking for India on the Internet," in Steven Jones' _Virtual Culture: Identity & Communication in Cybersociety_ (1997) notable. Also, Jon Stratton provides an initial examination of the relationship between communication technologies and national identity, expanding upon the thought of Benedict Anderson, in his article, "Cyberspace and the Globalization of Culture," in David Porter's _Internet Culture_ (1997) Finally, if you're interested in looking at other modes of media, in particular television, Emily West published a very interesting article in _Critical Studies in Media Communication_ - "Selling Canada to Canadians: Collective Memory, National Identity, and Popular Culture" (Vol. 19, No. 2, June 2002, pp. 212-229) - in which she examines the relationship of mass-mediated representations and national memory. Best, John John Edward Campbell Doctoral Student Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania e-mail: jcampbell@asc.upenn.edu web-page: www.knowledgepower.info ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Herman" <aherman@holycross.edu> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 1:03 PM Subject: [Air-l] Query on Digitial Technology and National Identity 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 _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l@aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l
we have some things on cddc that might be of interest these are tim's online papers http://www.cddc.vt.edu/tim/papers.html there are some things in the digital governance site http://www.cddc.vt.edu/digitalgov/ other books that might be of interest are: empire by hardt and negri works by saskia sassen, works by manuel castells esp. the power of identity mutations by rem koolhaas et. al.
Hi Andrew, When I teach Internet and Identity, in addition to technology-specific material I also use Kenneth Gergen to talk about basic concepts related to the social construction of identity. He does a nice job in both of these books: _The Saturated Self_ and _Invitation to Social Construction_ Annette Markham At 01:03 PM 4/15/2003 -0400, you wrote:
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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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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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thanks a lot for the references, however, besides Diaspora, other sources are not widely available in this part of the world. any way we can get some digital copies, e.g. your article (2002) and Bahri's (2001)? WM
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