Inside Out: Postcolonial Subjectivities and Everyday Life Online

14. Polymedia communication and mediatized migration: an ethnographic approach

“…Kosnick (2007) has developed an exemplary ethnography of Turkish media in Germany which also took into account media discourse. Recent years have seen the development of research that examines the rise of migrant blogs or production of content on social media as part of their efforts to gain visibility and amplify their voice in the public domain (Franklin 2001;Mitra 2001;Siapera 2005).…”

‘Helping Generation Ex’: divorce, legal advice in women's magazines and DIY law in cyberspace

“…Women using the Internet find that it is a more suitable way of expressing emotions than are other means of communication (Hardey, 2002). In sum, there is clear evidence to suggest that the Internet is stepping out of its 'nerdy' shadow to be reconstructed as a medium which lends itself to feminine usages combining risks with feminist potential (Youngs, 1999;Franklin, 2001).…”

“…Women are nevertheless increasingly staking a claim to the Internet as a means of cultural expression. For (some) women, the Internet is fast becoming an integral part of their everyday lives, enabling them to carve out a niche of political conversation against the tide of aggressive privatisation of the medium by e-commerce (Sassen, 1999;Franklin, 2001). In a moving account, Whittle (1998) examines how cyberspace has promoted the development of a global community of transgendered identities, a project which has traditionally foundered on physical and geographical boundaries.…”

Institutionalizing Insurgency

“…Pages of the journal have been filled with studies examining feminist 'transversal' politics, that is, women's rights activists' efforts to organize, mobilize, build alliances and form coalitions to demand accountability from governments and international agencies and to create social change (Jacquette 2003;Mansbridge 2003). IFjP has mapped vibrant transnational networks that mobilize through sub-regional, regional and global conferences, as well as websites, listservs, cyberjournals, newsletters and public reports, and documented the rich array of substantive issues on the transnational feminist agenda, including strategies to break down structural inequality between the North and South, redress the depredations of colonial and neo-colonial domination, fight institutional, cultural and individual racisms, alleviate poverty through debt forgiveness, land and income redistribution, educational opportunity and accessible and affordable health care, foster national self-reliance, regulate multi-national corporations and reduce military operations and expenditures (Franklin 2001;Maiguashca 2005).…”