Migration and new media

Transnational Families and Polymedia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6548868
AutoresMirca Madianou (0000-0001-6087-8411)
Ano2012
Páginas175
Data de publicação2012-01-01
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoMigration and new media (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
Open LibraryOL25230882M
ISBN9780415679282
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas228

The way in which families maintain long distance communication when they are separated because of migration has been revolutionised by the emergence of a variety of internet- and mobile phone-based platforms. These platforms have created a new communicative environment, which the authors call 'polymedia'. This book draws on a long-term ethnographic study of prolonged separation between transnational Filipino migrant mothers in the UK and their left-behind children in the Philippines. It is unique in the way it provides firstly a theory of the new experience of media itself, as polymedia. This is complemented by a theory of relationships based on an analysis of mother-child communication. The authors seek to go beyond both media studies and anthropology to construct a new theory of mediated relationships that combines findings from both disciplines and has considerable importance for the social sciences more generally."--Publisher's description

Children of foreign workers · Communication in families · Family Relationships · International communication · Interpersonal communication · Philippine Foreign workers · Social aspects · Technological innovations · Women foreign workers · Business & Economics · Communication dans la famille · Communication internationale · Communication interpersonnelle · Communication, International · Enfants de travailleurs étrangers · Family & Relationships · Filipino Foreign workers · Foreign workers · Great britain · Innovations · Labor · Labor & Industrial Relations · Philippines · Political science · Relations familiales · Social conditions · Southeast asia · Travailleurs étrangers philippins · Travailleuses étrangères