Modern Communications Technology in Ethnic Nationalist Hands

The Case of the Kurds

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6239151
AutoresDavid Romano (0000-0001-9966-316X, University of Toronto, autor de correspondencia)
Año2002
Volumen35
Número1
Páginas127-149
Fecha de publicación2002-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCanadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0008423902778207
OpenAlexW2159735902
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16

This article examines the effect of modern media and communications technology on ethnic nationalist resurgence, using the Kurds as a case example. Television, satellite communications, the Internet and easy access to publishing technology now facilitate ethnic nationalist challenges to state hegemony and monopoly of information. Additionally, modern media and communications technology can turn a humiliating defeat into a catalyst for a more unified, stronger, ethnic nationalist movement. Globally broadcast images of such a defeat arouse the passions and indignation of even those people who only nominally identify themselves with the ethnic group in question. At the same time, communications technology such as telephones, faxes and e-mail facilitate the channeling of such indignation into immediate group protest and action which, in turn, strengthens the ethnic identification of action participants

Ethnic group · Indignation · Monopoly · Nationalism · Passions · Political science · Law · Social Media and Politics · Turkey's Politics and Society