Topological and Content Analysis of the Cyberspace of the Indian Diaspora

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20076749
AutoresÉric Leclerc (0000-0001-8888-4696, Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Enjeux Sociaux, autor de correspondencia)
Año2013
Páginas171-183
Fecha de publicación2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaDiasporic Choices (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9781848881877_018
OpenAlexW2994902845
ISBN9781848881877
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas16

One of the critical issues about diasporas is their ability to maintain relationships and links despite the distance. Since the mid-1980s researchers put forward their propensity to use various and often the latest media to do so. The advent of the web has accelerated this trend. The web carries pictures and sounds, not just the voice, at a lower and lower cost. Speed links and enhanced communications with the dissemination of ICT are transforming uprooted migrants to connected migrants. Whether to maintain a cultural identity or to find a space for expression outside the traditional media that is difficult for them to access because of their minority status, we find that cyberspace has been heavily occupied by diasporas. Coming back to the aim of A. Brah’s Cartographies of Diaspora but in a literal sense, the E-atlas diaspora project ‘Exploration and mapping of diasporas on digital networks’ directed by Dana Diminescu’s objective is to sketch a map of cyberspace of digital diasporas. The Indian diaspora, which serves as an example in our case, is one of the main actors of the cyberspace of diasporas as shown in many sites built in India as well as in other countries. After a short presentation of the state of research in this area, this chapter provides a first exploration of cyberspace of the Indian diaspora through the analysis of more than 1000 websites all over the world. Three issues have been selected: the contours of the cyberspace of the Indian diaspora, the initial centres of the construction of this cyberspace and finally the internal organisation of this set. The study is based on the topological analysis of the network of websites and qualitative approaches of their content

Aesthetics · Art · Cyberspace · Diaspora · Geography · Media studies · Political science · Sketch · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Complex Network Analysis Techniques · Computer Science · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Law