Eritrea on-line

Diaspora, cyberspace, and the public sphere

Bibliographic Data

ID2469017
AuthorsVictoria Bernal (0000-0002-4623-2275, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume32
Issue4
Pages660-675
Publication date2005-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ae.2005.32.4.660
OpenAlexW2122525241
LanguageEN
Citations received56
References cited23

For Eritreans in diaspora, identities are deterritorialized, one's most pressing communication may be with far-flung strangers in cyberspace, and one's political engagement is centered on a distant homeland. Eritrean experiences, thus, seem to bring together various qualities that scholars have been grappling with in trying to chart the implications of the infotech revolution and life on-line, in seeking to understand processes of transnationalism and globalization, and in charting the elusive construction of community in the postmodern age. Through an analysis of the social history of www.dehai.org, a website developed by Eritreans in diaspora, I explore the ways that new forms of technological and geographical mobility are changing the conditions not just of capitalist production but also of knowledge production and the constitution of publics, public spheres, communities, and nations

Constitution · Cyberspace · Diaspora · Globalization · Homeland · Media studies · Militarization · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Sociology · The Internet · Transnationalism · African history and culture analysis · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law

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