Landmarks for 'Nowhereland

Scratching the surface of transnational Dutch-Iranian hyperlink networks

Bibliographic Data

ID2266710
AuthorsM Van Den Bos (0000-0003-1139-2399, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume12
Issue3
Pages643-661
Publication date2006-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9655.2006.00357.x
OpenAlexW2169869286
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited43

Transnational Dutch-Iranian hyperlink networks allow the exploration of relationships between virtual and physical space. According to many of its analysts, the Internet implies a virtual transcendence of place, but ethnographic approaches have convincingly redirected attention to issues of embeddedness. Here, this concept principally applies to national contexts of hyperlink production, content, and directionality. This article examines the interrelationships of on-line and off-line contexts (patterns of Dutch-Iranian communal organization) as a prelude to explorations of transnational hyperlinking. My findings indicate that national hyperlinks remain relatively important and that transnational links, far from being 'deterritorialized', follow national patterns for their sectoral distribution. That is, physical space, of nation-state boundaries in particular, weighs heavily on virtual interaction

Embeddedness · Epistemology · Hyperlink · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · The Internet · Transcendence (philosophy · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics

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