The Diary Weblog and the Travelling Tales of Diasporic Tourists

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ID3624977
AuthorsLena Karlsson (0000-0002-7406-7836, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume27
Issue3
Pages299-312
Publication date2006-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Intercultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0725-6868 • E-ISSN: 1469-9540
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07256860600779303
OpenAlexW2043845171
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited9

As has been commonly recognised, the Internet enables a transcendence of physical and national boundaries and therefore constitutes an ideal place for forging diasporic connections. There is no denying that the Internet has the potential to greatly affect how diasporic identities and senses of belonging are formed; the question is how, and in what online context? This article investigates a cluster of Asian American diary bloggers connected to a web-ring whose aim is to foster diasporic connections. More specifically, this article performs a discourse analysis of the tales of travelling to the ancestral homeland circulating within this cluster. I argue that the ancestral homes produced in these blogs are above all shaped by the real and imagined audience of fellow Asian American diary bloggers and the geographical and discursive place from which the ancestral home is imagined, i.e. the US. The diasporic imagination here emerges as locally situated

Aesthetics · Art · Diaspora · Epistemology · Homeland · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Situated · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Computer Science · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Media Studies and Communication

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