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Title:
Migration and new media transnational families and polymedia
Author:
Madianou, Mirca.
ISBN:
9780203154236
Publication Information:
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2012.
Physical Description:
vii, 175 p.
Abstract:
"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.
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