[Air-l] Query on Digitial Technology and National Identity

[radhika gajjala]

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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Radhika Gajjala

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