Nation As Network - Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship

How is the Internet transforming the relationships between citizens and states? The author combines media studies, ethnography, and African studies to explore this new political paradigm through an analysis of how Eritreans in diaspora have used the Internet to shape the course of Eritrean history.

About the author

Victoria Bernal is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Irvine, and the author of Cultivating Workers: Peasants and Capitalism in a Sudanese Village, coeditor of Theorizing NGOs: States, Feminisms, and Neoliberalism; and editor of Contemporary Cultures, Global Connections: Anthropology for the 21st Century.

Summary

How is the Internet transforming the relationships between citizens and states? The author combines media studies, ethnography, and African studies to explore this new political paradigm through an analysis of how Eritreans in diaspora have used the Internet to shape the course of Eritrean history.

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Bernal
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.08.2014
• EAN: 9780226144788
• ISBN: 978-0-226-14478-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Eritrea, Ethnic Studies, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies