[Air-l] national identity and the Net
Barry Wellman
wellman at chass.utoronto.ca
Wed Apr 16 09:09:37 PDT 2003
Re mediation of National identity on the Net, this is in someways
trans-national, but Ananda Mitra has done good work on the e-disapora and
has a forthcoming summary article in the Encyclopedia of Community, and
Don Slater's book on Trinidadians overseas links is expressly on this
issue.
There are huge opportunities to look at how websites, discussion lists,
etc help organize both diasporic and within-country identity and information.
I think that these sources mean that more is known informally in Toronto
(the most multiethnic city in the world) about the rest of the world than
the formal media knows.
Barry
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Barry Wellman Professor of Sociology NetLab Director
wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman
Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto
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