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Cyber-Hindutva: Hindu Nationalism, the Diaspora and the Web
Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 27 pp.
"Hindu nationalists defend the advent of a Hindu state in India, while projecting the universal appeal of their ideology. Their very territorialised yet universal claims have been finding particular resonance among migrant populations, particularly in North America. This study strives to go beyond c
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Discovering the Zoroastrian E-Diaspora
Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 17 pp.
"Zoroastrians are an ancient ethnic-religious community that goes back to the prophet Zarathustra. Today they number some 120,000 people, based in India/Pakistan and Iran; diaspora communities are settled in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia. On the Indian sub-continent, where Zoroastrian
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Internet und Demokratie
Wien: Mandelbaum (2012), 124 pp.
Religious Diaspora and Information Communications Technology: The Impact of Globalization on Communal Relations in Egypt
"The age-old Coptic balancing act of proving that they are patriotic Egyptians while retaining a strong attachment to their religious and cultural identity has become harder in the globalization era, when specific individuals and groups based on another continent can affect the domestic political en
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Community Sector Dynamics and the Lebanese Diaspora: Internal Fragmentation and Transnationalism on the Web
Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 19 pp.
"The author analyzes the presence of Lebanese organizations on the Web and shows the transnational links between associations from different countries, starting from a case study including France and Canada. The nature and density of these connections are partly attributable to the importance of lin
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The Tunisian diaspora: Between “digital riots” and web activism
Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 21 pp.
"This article deals with the increasing connections among the Tunisian diaspora and its homeland provided by a widespread use of the social Web. The main aim is to evaluate to what extent the Tunisian diaspora has contributed to a wider diffusion of cyberactivism concerning legitimate claims for dem
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The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals
New York, NY: Routledge (2011), xv, 245 pp.
Diasporic Grief and Grievance On-Line: How South African and Serbian Diasporas Use the Web
Global Media Journal - African Edition, volume 4, issue 1 (2010), 19 pp.
"This paper explores the political and psychological angles of white South African and Serbian diasporas’ discourses on-line. On the basis of textual analysis of diasporic websites we argue that participants speak of ongoing grievance over the loss of their countries and assert that they have been
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Indian Media in a Globalised World
New Delhi et al.: Sage (2010), xix, 275 pp.
"This book explores the transformation of Indian media in the context of two major developments: globalization, which has introduced what are termed as ‘foreign’ elements to Indian culture, and the opening of the floodgates for foreign media to enter the country. It discusses both theoretical co
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African Digital Media and the Public Sphere
New York; Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), xv, 260 pp.
"This book examines, from theoretical and empirical perspectives, the claims that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are catalysts of democratic change in Africa. Contributors do so from optimist, pragmatist-realist, and pessimist stances through analyses of various forms of evide
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Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms
New York; London: Routledge (2009), vii, 343 pp.
Media and Identity in Africa
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2009), xvii, 333 pp.
Medios de comunicación: El escenario iberoamericano
Madrid; Barcelona: Fundación Telefónica; Ariel (2007), 419 pp.
"En este informe se presenta unan visión de conjunto de los medios de comunicación en Latinoamérica que aparece como la suma de circunstancias nacionales complejas y diversas, muchas veces trazadas por desigualdades en las que cohabitan la riqueza y la pobreza, la inclusión y la exclusión, lo m
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