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Click and Kin : Transnational Identity and Quick Media /

Click and Kin is an interdisciplinary examination of how our increasingly mobile and networked age is changing the experience of kinship and connection. Focusing on how identity formation is affected by quick media such as instant messaging, video chat, and social networks, the contributors to this...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Atay, Ahmet (Contribuidor), De, Aparajita (Contribuidor), Friedman, May (Contribuidor, Editor ), McKee, Kimberly (Contribuidor), Moinuddin, Shekh (Contribuidor), Ng, Isabella (Contribuidor), Obermayr, Julia (Contribuidor), Schultermandl, Silvia (Contribuidor, Editor ), Veissière, Samuel (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • CLICK AND KIN. Transnational Identity and Quick Media
  • Introduction
  • Between the Individual and an Imagined Community
  • 1. "I Talk to My Family in Mexico but I Don't Know Them": Undocumented Young Adults Negotiate Belonging in the United States through Conversations with Mexico
  • 2. "Learning and Practising Democracy": Digital Diasporas and Negotiating a Transnational Civil Society
  • 3. Negotiating Womanhood and South Asian Nationalisms: Blurring Borders and Identities in Social Media
  • Shaping Identities
  • 4. Queering "Web" Families: Cultural Kinship through Lesbian Web Series
  • 5. Literary Letters and IMs: American Epistolary Novels as Regulatory Fictions
  • Cyber-Alternatives to Lived Identities
  • 6. Digital Diasporic Experiences in Digital Queer Spaces
  • 7. Claiming Ourselves as "Korean": Accounting for Adoptees within the Korean Diaspora in the United States
  • Disembodied Connections
  • 8. Shifting Terrain: Exploring the History of Communication through the Communication of My History
  • 9. Love Knows No Bounds: (Re)Defining Ambivalent Physical Boundaries and Kinship in the World of ICTs
  • 10. The Internet Is Not a River: Space, Movement, and Relationality in a Wired World
  • Contributors
  • Index