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Migration and new media : transnational families and polymedia / Mirca Madianou and Daniel Miller.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.Description: vii, 175 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780415679282 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 0415679281 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 9780415679299 (pbk : alk. paper)
  • 041567929X (pbk : alk. paper)
  • 9780203154236 (ebk : alk. paper)
  • 0203154231 (ebk : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.40941 23
Contents:
The Philippines and globalisation : migration, mothering and communications -- Why they go and why they stay -- Letters and cassettes -- The mothers' perspective -- The children's perspective -- The technology of relationships -- Polymedia -- A theory of mediated relationships.
Summary: "The way in which families maintain long distance communication when they are separated because of migration has been revolutionised by the emergence of a variety of internet- and mobile phone-based platforms. These platforms have created a new communicative environment, which the authors call 'polymedia'. This book draws on a long-term ethnographic study of prolonged separation between transnational Filipino migrant mothers in the UK and their left-behind children in the Philippines. It is unique in the way it provides firstly a theory of the new experience of media itself, as polymedia. This is complemented by a theory of relationships based on an analysis of mother-child communication. The authors seek to go beyond both media studies and anthropology to construct a new theory of mediated relationships that combines findings from both disciplines and has considerable importance for the social sciences more generally."--Publisher's description.
List(s) this item appears in: Social Science & humanities | Wireless and mobile communication
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Available at Centre for Social Science Research 331.40941 M1821m 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 01 Not For Loan 022930
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Philippines and globalisation : migration, mothering and communications -- Why they go and why they stay -- Letters and cassettes -- The mothers' perspective -- The children's perspective -- The technology of relationships -- Polymedia -- A theory of mediated relationships.

"The way in which families maintain long distance communication when they are separated because of migration has been revolutionised by the emergence of a variety of internet- and mobile phone-based platforms. These platforms have created a new communicative environment, which the authors call 'polymedia'. This book draws on a long-term ethnographic study of prolonged separation between transnational Filipino migrant mothers in the UK and their left-behind children in the Philippines. It is unique in the way it provides firstly a theory of the new experience of media itself, as polymedia. This is complemented by a theory of relationships based on an analysis of mother-child communication. The authors seek to go beyond both media studies and anthropology to construct a new theory of mediated relationships that combines findings from both disciplines and has considerable importance for the social sciences more generally."--Publisher's description.

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