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Diaspora and Media

This Working Group aims to examine the role of diaspora groups in the production and consumption of the media from a variety of perspectives including the roles of cultural and discursive practices, the implications of new information technologies, the nature of globally dispersed diasporic communities.

Chair: Roza Tsagarousianou [Contact]

This Working Group is concerned with the production and consumption of the media by globally dispersed diasporic communities. The changing relationship between diasporas and globalisation is examined in the light of the transnationalisation of the media and the reconfigurations of place, space and culture that affect everyday life for diasporic communities. Areas of interest include the interplay of the transnational and the local in diasporic communications, diasporic communications and identities, audiences and diasporic cultural politics, diasporic cultural production and consumption, and the tension between integration, cultural separatism and hybridity. This Working Group is also associated with Media Production and Consumption theme.

Members of the Diaspora and Media Working Group.



Stockholm 2008 - Diaspora and Media Working Group Call for Papers

Stockholm 2008 - Diaspora and Media Working Group Call for PapersEXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2008!

The Diasporas and the Media working group is calling for papers for a session of the working group meeting in Stockholm 2008, to continue to foster research and debate in this exciting new field.

Media research and theory has given a great deal of attention over the last three decades to increasing flows of media products and services on a global scale, it has only recently shown interest in the flows of people which the media tend to follow.
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Working Group on ‘Diaspora and the Media’ Call For Papers

IAMCR 2007 conference - ‘Media, Communication, Information: Celebrating 50 years of Theories and Practices’, in Paris, France, July 23-25, 2007.

The working group successfully conducted its second sessions in Cairo in July 2006, and is calling for papers for a session of the working group meeting in Paris 2007, to continue to foster research in this exciting new field.

Media research and theory has given a great deal of attention over the last three decades to increasing flows of media products and services on a global scale, although it has only recently shown interest in the flows of people which the media tend to follow.

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