This looks like a very interesting special issue.
Myria
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New from Global Networks:
SPECIAL ISSUE
Return to Cyberia: Technology and the Social Worlds of Transnational Migrants
Guest Editors: Anastasia Panagakos and Heather Horst
FREE ARTICLE
We are pleased to offer the following article from this special issue free online. Click on the link below to read it:
The blessings and burdens of communication: cell phones in Jamaican transnational social fields
Heather A. Horst
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2006.00138.x#article
ABOUT THIS ISSUE
This issue constitutes a 'return' to Cyberia, the concept coined by Arturo Escobar a decade ago to describe, in part, how various communities adopt or reject new technologies based upon cultural, political, and economic factors. Its five papers evaluate the contemporary moment of new cultural and social forms influenced by rapidly evolving technologies in the first critical decade of their diffusion. The contributions address how and why transnational populations use particular communication technologies and the ways in which these practices are influenced by factors such as generation, history of settlement and dispersal, cultural values, class, and access.
Collectively the papers address the following issues: What is the relationship between different communication technologies? Are ICTs, and the Internet in particular, controlled by certain segments of transnational populations, thereby exacerbating internal hierarchies based on class and education, or has the Internet become a tool for the non-elite as well? What then are the costs and benefits of participating in virtual communities spread over vast distances? How do new ICTs transform the relationships between those who migrate and those who stay and how do the qualities of particular ICTs influence the social and emotional character of the relationships maintained and created across time and space? The papers present empirical research from Jamaica, Australia, Washington DC, and the Netherlands, while also focusing on Salvadoran, Eritrean, Iranian and Kurdish transnational communities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Click on the links below to read article abstracts:
Return to Cyberia: technology and the social worlds of transnational migrants
Anastasia N. Panagakos, Heather A. Horst
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2006.00136.x
'Virtual' intimacies? Families communicating across transnational contexts
Raelene Wilding
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2006.00137.x
FREE ARTICLE: The blessings and burdens of communication: cell phones in Jamaican transnational social fields
Heather A. Horst
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2006.00138.x#article
Diaspora, cyberspace and political imagination: the Eritrean diaspora online
Victoria Bernal
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2006.00139.x
Transnational dimensions of the digital divide among Salvadoran immigrants in the Washington DC metropolitan area
José Luis Benítez
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2006.00140.x
Territorial bounds to virtual space: transnational online and offline networks of Iranian and Turkish-Kurdish immigrants in the Netherlands
Matthijs Van Den Bos, Liza Nell
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2006.00141.x
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New from Global Networks:
SPECIAL ISSUE
Return to Cyberia: Technology and the Social Worlds of Transnational Migrants
Guest Editors: Anastasia Panagakos and Heather Horst
========================================================================================
FREE ARTICLE
We are pleased to offer the following article from this special issue free online. Click on the link below to read it:
The blessings and burdens of communication: cell phones in Jamaican transnational social fields
Heather A. Horst
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2006.00138.x#article
========================================================================================
ABOUT THIS ISSUE
This issue constitutes a 'return' to Cyberia, the concept coined by Arturo Escobar a decade ago to describe, in part, how various communities adopt or reject new technologies based upon cultural, political, and economic factors. Its five papers evaluate the contemporary moment of new cultural and social forms influenced by rapidly evolving technologies in the first critical decade of their diffusion. The contributions address how and why transnational populations use particular communication technologies and the ways in which these practices are influenced by factors such as generation, history of settlement and dispersal, cultural values, class, and access.
Collectively the papers address the following issues: What is the relationship between different communication technologies? Are ICTs, and the Internet in particular, controlled by certain segments of transnational populations, thereby exacerbating internal hierarchies based on class and education, or has the Internet become a tool for the non-elite as well? What then are the costs and benefits of participating in virtual communities spread over vast distances? How do new ICTs transform the relationships between those who migrate and those who stay and how do the qualities of particular ICTs influence the social and emotional character of the relationships maintained and created across time and space? The papers present empirical research from Jamaica, Australia, Washington DC, and the Netherlands, while also focusing on Salvadoran, Eritrean, Iranian and Kurdish transnational communities.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Click on the links below to read article abstracts:
Return to Cyberia: technology and the social worlds of transnational migrants
Anastasia N. Panagakos, Heather A. Horst
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2006.00136.x
'Virtual' intimacies? Families communicating across transnational contexts
Raelene Wilding
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2006.00137.x
FREE ARTICLE: The blessings and burdens of communication: cell phones in Jamaican transnational social fields
Heather A. Horst
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2006.00138.x#article
Diaspora, cyberspace and political imagination: the Eritrean diaspora online
Victoria Bernal
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2006.00139.x
Transnational dimensions of the digital divide among Salvadoran immigrants in the Washington DC metropolitan area
José Luis Benítez
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2006.00140.x
Territorial bounds to virtual space: transnational online and offline networks of Iranian and Turkish–Kurdish immigrants in the Netherlands
Matthijs Van Den Bos, Liza Nell
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1471-0374.2006.00141.x
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Don’t miss the next special issue of Global Networks!
The next special issue of Global Networks will be on South Asian Transnational Marriages (Volume 6, Issue 4). To be notified when this and other issues of Global Networks are published online, sign up to receive table of contents email alerts. Signing up is easy:
1. Visit www.blackwell-synergy.com and log-in or register
2. Go to My Synergy and click the Email Alerts tab
3. Select Global Networks and submit
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