Kurdish Diaspora Online: From Imagined Community to Managing Communities
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xiii, 243 pp.
Contains bibliogr. pp. 215-233, index
Series: Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication
ISBN 978-1-137-51347-2
"The argument offered in this book is that new technology, as opposed to traditional media such as television, radio, and newspaper, is working against the national grain to weaken its imagined community. Online activities and communications between people and across borders suggest that digital media has strong implications for different articulations of identity and belongingness, which open new ways of thinking about the imagined community. The findings are based on transnational activities by Kurdish diaspora members across borders that have pushed them to rethink notions of belonging and identity." (Palgrave Macmillan website)