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1 online resource (222 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Turning the Tables on Procrustes; Part I: The Color and Shape of a Cyberspatial World; Chapter 1: From Bibles to Bollywood: Mass Media, Identity, and the State; Chapter 2: Media Unbound: The Internet, Cyberspace, and Nationalism on the Web; Chapter 3: New World (Dis)Orders: National Identity and Ethnic Politics in the Global Era; Part II: Homo-Cybericus-Genus and Species; Chapter 4: Electronic Irredentists: Albanians Seeking Unity in Digital Space and Virtual Places |
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Chapter 5: Post-Imperial Digerati: Near Abroad Russians Transcending Local Barriers via Global TechnologiesChapter 6: Cybernetic Vanguard: The Roma's Use of the Web to Protect a Minority under Siege; Chapter 7: Virtual Prophets: Ummahists and the Construction of a New Imagined Community; Afterword: Toward a Cybernational Future?; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace examines the central role of the Internet in shaping national identity among stateless nations and national minorities in the twenty-first century. By creating new spaces for political discourse, alternative avenues for cultural production, and novel means of social organization, the author argues that the Web is remaking what it means to be part of nation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Political anthropology.
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Politics and culture.
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Mass media and culture.
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Mass media and international relations.
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Internet -- Political aspects.
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World Wide Web -- Political aspects
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Internet -- Political aspects
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Mass media and culture
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Mass media and international relations
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Political anthropology
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Politics and culture
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781461633419 |
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1461633419 |
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9781283614559 |
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1283614553 |
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9786613927002 |
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6613927007 |
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