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Chair: Tom Jacobson [contact] - Task Force on Changes in Academia and Future Directions for IAMCR
Chair: Friedrich Krotz [contact] - Task Force on Future Scenarios for the IAMCRÂ
Chair: Cees Hamelink [contact] - Task Force on Media Policy
Co-Chair: Stefania Milan [contact]
Co-Chair: Jeremy Shtern [contact]
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Members' books
Migration and New Media: Transnational Families and Polymedia
Mirca Madianou & Daniel Miller
How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by the emergence of new media such as email, instant messaging, social networking sites, webcam and texting. A migrant mother can now call and text her left-behind children several times a day, peruse social networking sites and leave the webcam for 12 hours achieving a sense of co-presence.
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