Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace : the Internet, Minority Nationalism, and the Web of Identity.

By:

Saunders, Robert A

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (222 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781461633419
1461633419
9781283614559
1283614553
9786613927002
6613927007

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace : The Internet, Minority Nationalism, and the Web of Identity.DDC classification:

302.231

LOC classification:

GN492.S28 2011

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Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Turning the Tables on Procrustes; Part I: The Color and Shape of a Cyberspatial World; Chapter 1: From Bibles to Bollywood: Mass Media, Identity, and the State; Chapter 2: Media Unbound: The Internet, Cyberspace, and Nationalism on the Web; Chapter 3: New World (Dis)Orders: National Identity and Ethnic Politics in the Global Era; Part II: Homo-Cybericus-Genus and Species; Chapter 4: Electronic Irredentists: Albanians Seeking Unity in Digital Space and Virtual Places.

Chapter 5: Post-Imperial Digerati: Near Abroad Russians Transcending Local Barriers via Global TechnologiesChapter 6: Cybernetic Vanguard: The Roma's Use of the Web to Protect a Minority under Siege; Chapter 7: Virtual Prophets: Ummahists and the Construction of a New Imagined Community; Afterword: Toward a Cybernational Future?; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.

Summary: Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace examines the central role of the Internet in shaping national identity among stateless nations and national minorities in the twenty-first century. By creating new spaces for political discourse, alternative avenues for cultural production, and novel means of social organization, the author argues that the Web is remaking what it means to be part of nation.

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Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace examines the central role of the Internet in shaping national identity among stateless nations and national minorities in the twenty-first century. By creating new spaces for political discourse, alternative avenues for cultural production, and novel means of social organization, the author argues that the Web is remaking what it means to be part of nation.