This volume is a study of the loss and reconstruction of collective
and personal identities in ethnic migrant communities. Focusing on
the Bosnian and Croatian communities in Western Australia, Dona
Kolar-Panov documents the social and cultural changes that affected
these diasporic groups on the fragmentation of Yugoslavia. She
describes the migrant audience's daily emcounter with the media
images of destruction and atrocities committed in Croatia and
Bosnia, and charts the implications the continuous viewing of the
real and excessive violence had on the awakening of their
ethno-national consciousness. The author presents an insight into
how migrant cultures are shaped and changed through the reception
and assimilation of images seen on video and television screens.
Using the combination of close and semiotic analysis of videotexts
with an informed account of social, political and historical
contexts, the author recalls the complex relationships between
ethnicity, technology and the reconstruction of identity.
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