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This companion brings together scholars working at the intersection
of media and class, with a focus on how understandings of class are
changing in contemporary global media contexts. From the memes of
and about working-class supporters of billionaire "populists", to
well-publicized and critiqued philanthropic efforts to bring
communication technologies into developing country contexts, to the
behind-the-scenes work of migrant tech workers, class is undergoing
change both in and through media. Diverse and thoughtfully curated
contributions unpack how media industries, digital technologies,
everyday media practices-and media studies itself-feed into and
comment upon broader, interdisciplinary discussions. They cover a
wide range of topics, such as economic inequality, workplace
stratification, the sharing economy, democracy and journalism,
globalization, and mobility/migration. Outward-looking,
intersectional, and highly contemporary, The Routledge Companion to
Media and Class is a must-read for students and researchers
interested in the intersections between media, class, sociology,
technology, and a changing world.
This edited volume examines the ways that global media shapes
relations between place, culture, and identity. Through the
included essays, Chopra and Gajjala offer a mix of theoretical
reflections and empirical case studies that will help readers
understand how the media can shape cultural identities and,
conversely, how cultural formations can influence the political
economy of global media. The interdisciplinary, international
scholars gathered here push the discussion of what it means to do
global media studies beyond uncritical celebrations of the global
media technologies (or globalization) as well as beyond
perspectives that are a priori dismissive of the possibilities of
global media. Some of the key questions and themes that the
international contributors explore within the text include: Is the
global audience of global television the same as the global
audience of the internet? Can we conceptualize the global
culture-media-identity dynamic beyond the discourse of
postcolonialism? How does the globalization of media affect
feelings of nationalism? How is the growth of a consumer "global
middle class" spread, and resisted, through media? Global Media,
Identity, and Culture takes a comparative media approach to
addressing these, and other, issues across media forms including
print, television, film, and new media
This companion brings together scholars working at the intersection
of media and class, with a focus on how understandings of class are
changing in contemporary global media contexts. From the memes of
and about working-class supporters of billionaire "populists", to
well-publicized and critiqued philanthropic efforts to bring
communication technologies into developing country contexts, to the
behind-the-scenes work of migrant tech workers, class is undergoing
change both in and through media. Diverse and thoughtfully curated
contributions unpack how media industries, digital technologies,
everyday media practices-and media studies itself-feed into and
comment upon broader, interdisciplinary discussions. They cover a
wide range of topics, such as economic inequality, workplace
stratification, the sharing economy, democracy and journalism,
globalization, and mobility/migration. Outward-looking,
intersectional, and highly contemporary, The Routledge Companion to
Media and Class is a must-read for students and researchers
interested in the intersections between media, class, sociology,
technology, and a changing world.
This edited volume examines the ways that global media shapes
relations between place, culture, and identity. Through the
included essays, Chopra and Gajjala offer a mix of theoretical
reflections and empirical case studies that will help readers
understand how the media can shape cultural identities and,
conversely, how cultural formations can influence the political
economy of global media. The interdisciplinary, international
scholars gathered here push the discussion of what it means to do
global media studies beyond uncritical celebrations of the global
media technologies (or globalization) as well as beyond
perspectives that are a priori dismissive of the possibilities of
global media. Some of the key questions and themes that the
international contributors explore within the text include: Is the
global audience of global television the same as the global
audience of the internet? Can we conceptualize the global
culture-media-identity dynamic beyond the discourse of
postcolonialism? How does the globalization of media affect
feelings of nationalism? How is the growth of a consumer "global
middle class" spread, and resisted, through media? Global Media,
Identity, and Culture takes a comparative media approach to
addressing these, and other, issues across media forms including
print, television, film, and new media
Migration moves people, ideas and things. Migration shakes up
political scenes and instigates new social movements. It redraws
emotional landscapes and reshapes social networks, with traditional
and digital media enabling, representing, and shaping the
processes, relationships and people on the move. The deep
entanglement of media and migration expands across the fields of
political, cultural and social life. For example, migration is
increasingly digitally tracked and surveilled, and national and
international policy-making draws on data on migrant movement,
anticipated movement, and biometrics to maintain a sense of control
over the mobilities of humans and things. Also, social imaginaries
are constituted in highly mediated environments where information
and emotions on migration are constantly shared on social and
traditional media. Both, those migrating and those receiving them,
turn to media and communicative practices to learn how to make
sense of migration and to manage fears and desires associated with
cross-border mobility in an increasingly porous but also controlled
and divided world. The SAGE Handbook of Media and Migration offers
a comprehensive overview of media and migration through new
research, as well as a review of present scholarship in this
expanding and promising field. It explores key interdisciplinary
concepts and methodologies, and how these are challenged by new
realities and the links between contemporary migration patterns and
its use of mediated processes. Although primarily grounded in media
and communication studies, the Handbook builds on research in the
fields of sociology, anthropology, political science, urban
studies, science and technology studies, human rights, development
studies, and gender and sexuality studies, to bring to the
forefront key theories, concepts and methodological approaches to
the study of the movement of people. In seven parts, the Handbook
dissects important areas of cross-disciplinary and generational
discourse for graduate students, early career researcher, migration
management practitioners, and academics in the fields of media and
migration studies, international development, communication
studies, and the wider social science discipline. Part One:
Keywords and Legacies Part Two: Methodologies Part Three:
Communities Part Four: Representations Part Five: Borders and
Rights Part Six: Spatialities Part Seven: Conflicts
When we work or play through digital technologies - we also live in
them. Communities form, conversations and social movements emerge
spontaneously and through careful offline planning. While we have
used disembodied communication and transportation technologies in
the past - and still do - we have never before actually
synchronously inhabited these communicative spaces, routes and
networks in quite the way we do now. Digital Diasporas engages
conversations across a selection of contemporary (gendered) Indian
identified networks online: "Desis" creating place through labour
and affective network formation in secondlife, Indian (diasporic)
women engaged in digital domesticity, to Indian digital feminists
engaged in debate and dialogue through Twitter. Through particular
conversations and ethnographic journeys and linking back to
personal and South Asian histories of Internet mediation, Gajjala
and her co-authors reveal how affect and gendered digital labour
combine in the formation of global socio-economic environment.
Online Philanthropy in the Global North and South: Connecting,
Microfinancing, and Gaming for Change offers a critical examination
how online philanthropy operates through digital connectivity,
affective networks of well-meaning digital givers, and the
commodification of poverty through what is conceptualized as the
"digital subaltern." Chapters examine a range of online
philanthropy settings such as online microfinance platforms and
games for change, with case studies revealing unseen problems in
how digital inclusion and financialization are attempted through
the joint forces of NGOization and ITization.
Cyberculture and the Subaltern: Weavings of the Virtual and Real,
edited by Radhika Gajjala, maps how voice and silence shape online
space in relation to offline actualities. Thus, it weaves the
virtual and real in relation to so-called old and new technologies
using globalization and technology as the frame for examination.
Implicit in this investigation is the question of how offline
actualities and online cultures are in turn shaped by online
hierarchies, as well as different kinds of local access to global
contexts. This book reveals the logic of particular global-local
directions that emerge within digital, transnational capital and
labor flows. To this end, the contributors to this volume examine
various sites and intersections through critical lenses enabled by
conversations and writings in subaltern studies, affect theory,
postcolonial feminist theory, critical cultural studies,
communication studies, critical development studies, and science
and technology studies. Contexts explored in this collection
include microfinance online, handloom contexts from India and
Africa in relation to development discourse, new technologies, and
virtual world marketing. Through actual auto-ethnographic
engagement, Cyberculture and the Subaltern reveals the
interdependence of the economic, political, cultural, and social in
the production of the subaltern online.
Cyberculture and the Subaltern: Weavings of the Virtual and Real,
edited by Radhika Gajjala, maps how voice and silence shape online
space in relation to offline actualities. Thus, it weaves the
virtual and real in relation to so-called old and new technologies
using globalization and technology as the frame for examination.
Implicit in this investigation is the question of how offline
actualities and online cultures are in turn shaped by online
hierarchies, as well as different kinds of local access to global
contexts. This book reveals the logic of particular global-local
directions that emerge within digital, transnational capital and
labor flows. To this end, the contributors to this volume examine
various sites and intersections through critical lenses enabled by
conversations and writings in subaltern studies, affect theory,
postcolonial feminist theory, critical cultural studies,
communication studies, critical development studies, and science
and technology studies. Contexts explored in this collection
include microfinance online, handloom contexts from India and
Africa in relation to development discourse, new technologies, and
virtual world marketing. Through actual auto-ethnographic
engagement, Cyberculture and the Subaltern reveals the
interdependence of the economic, political, cultural, and social in
the production of the subaltern online.
More than a decade after feminists burst forth onto the Internet
demanding material access and social intervention, this collection
sets out to explore what it means to be a cyberfeminist today. The
contributors examine a wide range of topics, from Health 2.0, the
blogosphere, and video games, to female artists and diasporic
youth, in order to re-envision how feminists can intervene in the
mutual shaping of online and offline relationships. These authors
contend that women's bodies and actions online are influenced by
the politics of offline spaces, which buttress power hierarchies at
both material and symbolic levels. They do not, however, simply
make pessimistic assessments of online spaces as an extension of
the existing power relations. Rather, Cyberfeminism 2.0 attends to
contested aspects of new digital technologies that simultaneously
enable political retreat and feminist resistance.
More than a decade after feminists burst forth onto the Internet
demanding material access and social intervention, this collection
sets out to explore what it means to be a cyberfeminist today. The
contributors examine a wide range of topics, from Health 2.0, the
blogosphere, and video games, to female artists and diasporic
youth, in order to re-envision how feminists can intervene in the
mutual shaping of online and offline relationships. These authors
contend that women's bodies and actions online are influenced by
the politics of offline spaces, which buttress power hierarchies at
both material and symbolic levels. They do not, however, simply
make pessimistic assessments of online spaces as an extension of
the existing power relations. Rather, Cyberfeminism 2.0 attends to
contested aspects of new digital technologies that simultaneously
enable political retreat and feminist resistance.
In her new book Gajjala examines online community formations and
subjectivities that are produced at the intersection of
technologies and globalization. She describes the process of
designing and building cyberfeminist webs for South Asian women's
communities, the generation of feminist cyber(auto)ethnographies,
and offers a third-world critique of cyberfeminism. She ultimately
views virtual communities as imbedded in real life communities and
contexts, with human costs. The online discussions are visible,
textual records of the discourses that circulate within real life
communities. Her methodology involves a form of 'cyberethnography,
' which explores the dialogic and disruptive possibilities of the
virtual medium and of hypertext. Gajjala's work addresses the
political, economic, and cultural ramifications of the Internet
communication explosion. This book will be a valuable reference for
those with an interest in cultural studies, feminist studies, and
new technologies
In her new book Gajjala examines online community formations and
subjectivities that are produced at the intersection of
technologies and globalization. She describes the process of
designing and building cyberfeminist webs for South Asian women's
communities, the generation of feminist cyber(auto)ethnographies,
and offers a third-world critique of cyberfeminism. She ultimately
views virtual communities as imbedded in real life communities and
contexts, with human costs. The online discussions are visible,
textual records of the discourses that circulate within real life
communities. Her methodology involves a form of 'cyberethnography,'
which explores the dialogic and disruptive possibilities of the
virtual medium and of hypertext. Gajjala's work addresses the
political, economic, and cultural ramifications of the Internet
communication explosion. This book will be a valuable reference for
those with an interest in cultural studies, feminist studies, and
new technologies.
When we work or play through digital technologies - we also live in
them. Communities form, conversations and social movements emerge
spontaneously and through careful offline planning. While we have
used disembodied communication and transportation technologies in
the past - and still do - we have never before actually
synchronously inhabited these communicative spaces, routes and
networks in quite the way we do now. Digital Diasporas engages
conversations across a selection of contemporary (gendered) Indian
identified networks online: "Desis" creating place through labour
and affective network formation in secondlife, Indian (diasporic)
women engaged in digital domesticity, to Indian digital feminists
engaged in debate and dialogue through Twitter. Through particular
conversations and ethnographic journeys and linking back to
personal and South Asian histories of Internet mediation, Gajjala
and her co-authors reveal how affect and gendered digital labour
combine in the formation of global socio-economic environment.
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