Networking the Globe - New Technologies and the Postcolonial

Informationen zum Autor Florian Stadtler is a Lecturer in Global Literatures at the University of Exeter! UK. He has published on South Asian cinema! fiction and history! including Fiction! Film and Indian Popular Cinema: Salman Rushdie's Novels and the Cinematic Imagination. He is the reviews editor for Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing.Ole Birk Laursen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen! Denmark. His research concerns the literature and history of anti-colonial and postcolonial resistances in Britain! focusing especially on anarchism! revolutions and riots. Zusammenfassung This book addresses how new technologies, social networks, and global satellite news channels have impacted discussions of identity, place and nation, and how they are shifting the parameters of postcolonial thought. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction – Networking the globe: culture, technologies, globalization 1. Connecting the peripheries: networks, place and scale in the World Social Forum process 2. Arguing about religion: BBC World Service Internet forums as sites of postcolonial encounter 3. Panopticons within panopticons: surveillance inversions in Willie Doherty’s video installations 4. The borders of virtual space: new information technologies and European Islamic youth culture 5. New media beyond neo-imperialism: Betty Boop and Sita Sings the Blues 6. Pluralism and cultural imperialism in the network films Babel and Lantana 7. The global and the postcolonial in post-migratory literature 8. The cartography of the local in Arun Kolatkar’s poetry

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• Authors: Florian (EDT)/ Laursen Stadtler, Florian (The Open University Stadtler, Florian (University of Exeter Stadtler
• Assisted by: Ole Birk Laursen (Editor), Ole Birk (University of Copenhagen Laursen (Editor), Laursen Ole Birk (Editor), Florian Stadtler (Editor), Florian (University of Exeter Stadtler (Editor), Stadtler Florian (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138305434
• ISBN: 978-1-138-30543-4
• No. of pages: 136
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Media Studies, Sociology, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Communication Studies, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Impact of science & technology on society, Literary studies: postcolonial literature