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Digital Diasporas, Diaspora, simultaneously, Videos and thoughts, e…
Digital Diasporas
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provide new possible cartographies
to map the self in globalization and localization
avoid closures
avoid the negative effects of identity politics
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Diaspora
Digital Communities
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Information technologies changed people's perception of boundaries and identity
no longer linked to geographical demarcations and physical markers
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Postcolonial critique:
Internet as dependent and superimposed on structures and inequalities. (Nayar 2010)
Materialist critique:
behind the virtual is labour stuck in their embodied "othered" identities (Aneesh 2006, etc.)
repurpose of the Internet for capitalistic →digital neocolonialism
exploit free digital labour
gather privacy information for commercial purposes
Digital securitization
control the other (migrant, refugee, alien)
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Internet is not a one-way cultural imperialism medium
but a facilitator of new flows
a platform for global interaction
Digital Diasporas
review of cases studies
Cyber Yugoslavia (Antonijevic 2004)
Iranians and Turkish-Kurdish migrants in the Netherlands ( Bosch, Nell 2006)
etc.
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post-national space
(Historically, diaspora was used to refer to the mass dispersion of a population from its indigenous territories, e.g., dispersion of Jews.)
New conceptual map (globalization: geographically and digitally)
the erosion of the nation-state
new cultural hybrid identities
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Videos and thoughts
The problem of power imbalance in digital discrete or digital communities
e.g., Indian government cyber aid to overseas labourers
Some embassy-centred communities of overseas students
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