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Migration, Media, and Global-Local Spaces
Esther Chin
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Description for Migration, Media, and Global-Local Spaces
Hardback. This book explores how we define our social spaces in a world of globalization, cultural diversity, and media convergence. Critiquing our focus on nation, state, and particular countries of origin and settlement, this book offers a new conceptual approach to study contemporary migration and media. Series: The Palgrave MacMillan Series in International Political Communication. Num Pages: 234 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFN; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 440.
This book explores how we define our social spaces in a world of globalization, cultural diversity, and media convergence. It invites us to consider how each of us relates to multiple people and places worldwide through migration and media. Critiquing our focus on nation, state, and particular countries of origin and settlement, this book offers a new conceptual approach to study contemporary migration and media. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Singaporean university students in Melbourne, Australia, this book details how we organize our social relations into diverse configurations of global and local spaces. This book aims to help university students, ... Read more
This book explores how we define our social spaces in a world of globalization, cultural diversity, and media convergence. It invites us to consider how each of us relates to multiple people and places worldwide through migration and media. Critiquing our focus on nation, state, and particular countries of origin and settlement, this book offers a new conceptual approach to study contemporary migration and media. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Singaporean university students in Melbourne, Australia, this book details how we organize our social relations into diverse configurations of global and local spaces. This book aims to help university students, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
The Palgrave MacMillan Series in International Political Communication
Condition
New
Weight
439g
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137558565
SKU
V9781137558565
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Ref
99-15
About Esther Chin
Esther Chin is a Lecturer in Media and Communication at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. She previously lectured in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where she also completed a PhD in Media and Communications and a Graduate Certificate in University Teaching. Esther specializes in global communication.
Reviews for Migration, Media, and Global-Local Spaces
Chin's work offers some valuable theoretical arguments and empirical insights, and represents a potentially useful resource for future scholars. ... it succeeds in describing the ways in which international students (of the developed world) experience migration and media, and how they relate to information and experiences as diverse sources of their discourse, imagination, and identity. (Peidong Yang, Mobile Media ... Read more