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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Webs of Resistance: The Citizen Online Journalism of the Nigerian Digital Diaspora

Kperogi, Farooq A. 07 May 2011 (has links)
The enhanced discursive opportunity structures that the Internet enables has inspired a momentous revolution in the Nigerian media landscape. This dissertation chronicles the emergence and flowering of the citizen and alternative online journalism of the Nigerian diasporic public sphere located primarily in the United States. Using case-study research, it profiles the major diasporan online citizen media outlets and highlights instances where these geographically distant citizen media sites shaped and influenced both the national politics and policies of the homeland and the media practices of the domestic media formation. The study makes the case that while it is customary in the scholarship on sovereignty, state-civil society relations, and diaspora studies to emphasize domination and one-dimensionality in cultural flows, the participation of members of the Nigerian digital diaspora in the politics and discourses of their homeland, from their exilic locations in the West through the instrumentality of online citizen media, illustrates that citizens, especially in the age of the Internet, are not mere powerless subjects and receivers of informational flows from the institutions of the state and corporate mass media but can be active consumers and producers of informational resources and even purveyors of political power in ways that amply exemplify trans-local reciprocality. It also argues that the Nigerian diaspora media might very well be a prototype of an evolving, Internet-enabled, trans-local, and mutual informational and cultural exchange between the educated deterritorialized ethnoscapes of peripheral nations whose exile in the West endues them with symbolic and cultural capital and the private institutions and governments of their homelands. The study recommends a comparative study of the online citizen journalism of Third World virtual diasporas in the West.
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Feels like at home - a study of local Chinese media in New Zealand

Xiao, Yu Michael January 2007 (has links)
The role of local Chinese media has become more important as the size of the Chinese community in New Zealand has increased rapidly in recent years. The function of local Chinese media could be like a bridge connecting the Chinese community and the mainstream society. This was an exploratory study which examined the current situation of local Chinese media to determine such issues as to whether they are the main source of information for the Chinese community, what if any difficulties they are facing and how they may develop in the future. A general research was conducted for the local Chinese media in Auckland, which covers brief introductions for some local Chinese newspapers, radio, websites, and the sole Chinese television company-World TV. Meanwhile, the researcher collected 102 questionnaires and conducted 10 in-depth interviews from the local Chinese residents and the staff working in local Chinese media companies. The findings of research suggest that most local Chinese residents utilize Chinese language media as a tool to collect daily information either from local society or their original countries. The local Chinese media not only provides information for the local community, but also has social value as a means for self-representation of the Chinese community in New Zealand and better adaptation to the mainstream society. On the other hand, the funding shortage as well as the tough competition became the obstacles for the future development for the local Chinese media. The results of this research may point to what the government’s role should be.
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Mangled bodies, mangled selves Hurston, A. Walker, and Morrison /

Raab, Angela R. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2008. / Title from screen (viewed on July 1, 2008). Department of English, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): Missy Dehn Kubitschek, Jennifer Thorington Springer, Tom Marvin. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-114).
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Searching for the consciousness of thirdness through Gao Xingjian's The other shore and Six ways of running

Zhuang, Jia-Yun. January 2004 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Theatre, 2004. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 134-135).
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Diásporas mentais e mentes diaspóricas : emergências, novas tecnologias, música, educação

Lima, Maria Helena de January 2013 (has links)
A Tese constitui uma reflexão sobre emergentes comportamentos coletivos e individuais associados às TICs – Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação - e que a partir de abordagem de pesquisa baseada na Perspectiva Eco-Sistêmica (construtivista, interacionista, sociocultural, afetiva e transcendente), procura reproduzir um caminho de referencias e reflexões teóricas e pessoais, individuais e coletivas. Pode-se considerar como ponto de partida desta Tese, a visualização de comportamentos individuais e coletivos relacionados às TICs associados a uma crescente necessidade de expressão e compartilhamento. Embora a Tese não esteja limitada ao aspecto musical, a reflexão que resultou neste trabalho, teve como principio a observação de uma intensa e crescente atividade musical, que não se limitavam apenas a trocas e escuta de arquivos, mas também a comportamentos protagonistas, criativos, não hierárquicos, relacionados à intervenção sobre os arquivos, composições coletivas, manipulação de códigos abertos e comunidades open code, e que são investigados pela linha de pesquisa em Música Ubíqua, que constitui uma das referências da Tese.Todos esses comportamentos, de forma geral, associados aos jovens, mas cada vez mais generalizados na sociedade e ampliados a todas as áreas. Comportamentos tribais segundo Maffesoli, ligados a uma visão cíclica que manifesta a necessidade humana de expressão de seus anseios, que são caracterizados por um estar junto, um presenteísmo, e um reenraizamento como necessidades profundas humanas, em resposta a uma sociedade estagnada pela racionalidade excessiva. Comportamentos que frisam, segundo Heidegger, o aspecto relacional do ser-aí como essencialmente ser-com-o-outro, e do jogo como parte da existência e dessa relação. Jogo, que por sua vez, se associa diretamente às nossas formas de relação com às TICs. Comportamentos emergentes que, para Johnson, estão ligados a padrões observáveis em diversos sistemas na natureza e na sociedade. Todos esses aspectos são relacionados à visão complexa de Morin sobre homo, em todas suas faces de manifestação no mundo: sapiens,faber,demens, ludens,mythologicus, que por sua vez impregnam nossas próprias relações com o mundo que construímos, e com a tecnologia que retroage sobre o mundo e sobre nós. Comportamentos que trazem potencialmente consigo um profundo questionamento do que somos, de nossos determinismos e possibilidades, de nossas constituições física, cerebral, mental, espiritual. De nossos limites e possibilidades. De nossos avanços e recuos. Trazem a possibilidade de reflexão sobre a ciência, e as tecnociências, que produzimos e que nos produz. Todas relações que refletem na forma como vemos, refletimos e fazemos educação em todos os níveis. A ideia das Diásporas mentais e das Mentes diaspóricas, procura sintetizar este movimento complexo, que nos potencializa a possibilidade de ser ao mesmo tempo, em vários espaços, tempos, que nos desimpede de limitações físicas, locais, sociais, que reafirma nossa identidade complexa, física e não-física, cerebral e mental, espiritual, contraditória e consensual, coletiva e individual. / The thesis is a reflection on emerging collective behavior and individual associated with ICT - Information and Communication Technologies -, and that from a research approach based on the Eco-Systemic Perspective (constructivist, interactionist, socio-cultural, emotional and transcendent), seeks to reproduce a path of references and theoretical personal, individual and collective reflections. The visualization of individual and collective behaviors related to ICTs associated with a growing need for expression and sharing may be considered as the starting point of this thesis. Although the thesis is not limited to the musical aspect, the reflection that resulted from this work had as a principal an intense and growing musical activity observation , which was not limited to file listening and exchanges, but also to the observation of protagonist, creative, not hierarchical behavior , related to the intervention on archives, collective composition, manipulation of open codes and open code communities, which are investigated by the line of research on Ubiquitous Music, which is one of the Thesis´ references. All these behaviors are generally associated with youth, but also are increasingly widespread in society and extended to all areas. Tribal behaviors according to Maffesoli, linked to a cyclical view that expresses the human need for their desires´ expression, which are characterized by a being together, a presenteeism, and a rerooting as a deep human need, in response to a stagnant society by an excessive rationality. Behaviors that, according to Heidegger, emphasize the relational aspect of being-there as essentially as being-with-the-other, and the game as part of the existence and this relationship. A game, which in his turn is directly associated to our way of relating to ICTs. Emergent behaviors that for Johnson are linked to the observable patterns in many systems in nature and in society. All these aspects are related to the complex view of Morin on homo in all its facets of manifestation in the world: sapiens, faber, demens, ludens, mythologicus, which in turn permeate our own relationship with the world we have built, and with the technology that retroacts on the world and on us. Behaviors that potentially bring with them a deep questioning of what we are, our possibilities and determinism, of our physical, brain, mental and spiritual constitution, of our limits and possibilities, our advances and retreats. Behaviors that bring the possibility of reflection on science, and technosciences, that we produce and that produce us, all relationships that reflect the way we see, reflect and make education at all levels. The idea of Mental Diasporas and Diasporic Minds, seeks to synthesize this complex movement, which enhances the possibility of us being at the same time in different spaces and times, which disengages us from physical, local and social limitations, which reaffirms our complex physical and non-physical, mental and cerebral, spiritual, contradictory and consensual, collective and individual identity.
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Diásporas mentais e mentes diaspóricas : emergências, novas tecnologias, música, educação

Lima, Maria Helena de January 2013 (has links)
A Tese constitui uma reflexão sobre emergentes comportamentos coletivos e individuais associados às TICs – Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação - e que a partir de abordagem de pesquisa baseada na Perspectiva Eco-Sistêmica (construtivista, interacionista, sociocultural, afetiva e transcendente), procura reproduzir um caminho de referencias e reflexões teóricas e pessoais, individuais e coletivas. Pode-se considerar como ponto de partida desta Tese, a visualização de comportamentos individuais e coletivos relacionados às TICs associados a uma crescente necessidade de expressão e compartilhamento. Embora a Tese não esteja limitada ao aspecto musical, a reflexão que resultou neste trabalho, teve como principio a observação de uma intensa e crescente atividade musical, que não se limitavam apenas a trocas e escuta de arquivos, mas também a comportamentos protagonistas, criativos, não hierárquicos, relacionados à intervenção sobre os arquivos, composições coletivas, manipulação de códigos abertos e comunidades open code, e que são investigados pela linha de pesquisa em Música Ubíqua, que constitui uma das referências da Tese.Todos esses comportamentos, de forma geral, associados aos jovens, mas cada vez mais generalizados na sociedade e ampliados a todas as áreas. Comportamentos tribais segundo Maffesoli, ligados a uma visão cíclica que manifesta a necessidade humana de expressão de seus anseios, que são caracterizados por um estar junto, um presenteísmo, e um reenraizamento como necessidades profundas humanas, em resposta a uma sociedade estagnada pela racionalidade excessiva. Comportamentos que frisam, segundo Heidegger, o aspecto relacional do ser-aí como essencialmente ser-com-o-outro, e do jogo como parte da existência e dessa relação. Jogo, que por sua vez, se associa diretamente às nossas formas de relação com às TICs. Comportamentos emergentes que, para Johnson, estão ligados a padrões observáveis em diversos sistemas na natureza e na sociedade. Todos esses aspectos são relacionados à visão complexa de Morin sobre homo, em todas suas faces de manifestação no mundo: sapiens,faber,demens, ludens,mythologicus, que por sua vez impregnam nossas próprias relações com o mundo que construímos, e com a tecnologia que retroage sobre o mundo e sobre nós. Comportamentos que trazem potencialmente consigo um profundo questionamento do que somos, de nossos determinismos e possibilidades, de nossas constituições física, cerebral, mental, espiritual. De nossos limites e possibilidades. De nossos avanços e recuos. Trazem a possibilidade de reflexão sobre a ciência, e as tecnociências, que produzimos e que nos produz. Todas relações que refletem na forma como vemos, refletimos e fazemos educação em todos os níveis. A ideia das Diásporas mentais e das Mentes diaspóricas, procura sintetizar este movimento complexo, que nos potencializa a possibilidade de ser ao mesmo tempo, em vários espaços, tempos, que nos desimpede de limitações físicas, locais, sociais, que reafirma nossa identidade complexa, física e não-física, cerebral e mental, espiritual, contraditória e consensual, coletiva e individual. / The thesis is a reflection on emerging collective behavior and individual associated with ICT - Information and Communication Technologies -, and that from a research approach based on the Eco-Systemic Perspective (constructivist, interactionist, socio-cultural, emotional and transcendent), seeks to reproduce a path of references and theoretical personal, individual and collective reflections. The visualization of individual and collective behaviors related to ICTs associated with a growing need for expression and sharing may be considered as the starting point of this thesis. Although the thesis is not limited to the musical aspect, the reflection that resulted from this work had as a principal an intense and growing musical activity observation , which was not limited to file listening and exchanges, but also to the observation of protagonist, creative, not hierarchical behavior , related to the intervention on archives, collective composition, manipulation of open codes and open code communities, which are investigated by the line of research on Ubiquitous Music, which is one of the Thesis´ references. All these behaviors are generally associated with youth, but also are increasingly widespread in society and extended to all areas. Tribal behaviors according to Maffesoli, linked to a cyclical view that expresses the human need for their desires´ expression, which are characterized by a being together, a presenteeism, and a rerooting as a deep human need, in response to a stagnant society by an excessive rationality. Behaviors that, according to Heidegger, emphasize the relational aspect of being-there as essentially as being-with-the-other, and the game as part of the existence and this relationship. A game, which in his turn is directly associated to our way of relating to ICTs. Emergent behaviors that for Johnson are linked to the observable patterns in many systems in nature and in society. All these aspects are related to the complex view of Morin on homo in all its facets of manifestation in the world: sapiens, faber, demens, ludens, mythologicus, which in turn permeate our own relationship with the world we have built, and with the technology that retroacts on the world and on us. Behaviors that potentially bring with them a deep questioning of what we are, our possibilities and determinism, of our physical, brain, mental and spiritual constitution, of our limits and possibilities, our advances and retreats. Behaviors that bring the possibility of reflection on science, and technosciences, that we produce and that produce us, all relationships that reflect the way we see, reflect and make education at all levels. The idea of Mental Diasporas and Diasporic Minds, seeks to synthesize this complex movement, which enhances the possibility of us being at the same time in different spaces and times, which disengages us from physical, local and social limitations, which reaffirms our complex physical and non-physical, mental and cerebral, spiritual, contradictory and consensual, collective and individual identity.
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Fios diaspóricos nas narrativas de "The woman warrior", de Maxine Hong Kingston. / The diasporic quality of the narratives in Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior.

Marília Borges Costa 30 January 2003 (has links)
O presente trabalho focaliza os processos de formação da identidade, observados em narrativas da escritora sino-americana Maxine Hong Kingston. Documentando as contradições e a fragmentação do sujeito, procura-se iluminar os vários sentidos de subjetividade presentes em uma pessoa de origem chinesa que vive nos Estados Unidos na época da pós-modernidade. O quadro teórico utilizado na análise desses processos é construído a partir da crítica sobre o romance pósmoderno e dos estudos culturais sobre a diáspora. Focaliza-se o livro de memórias da autora, The woman warrior – memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, publicado pela primeira vez em 1976. Desde meados do século XVIII, um grande número de imigrantes asiáticos deslocou-se para os Estados Unidos, trazendo consigo seus próprios valores materiais e espirituais e seus distintos padrões de comportamento. A formação das gerações que cresceram nessa encruzilhada de culturas só poderia ser difícil e conflituosa. Esta dissertação procura descobrir, por um lado, como se efetivam os processos de identificação dos sino-americanos, visto que estão sujeitos a dois sistemas de valor diferentes e, por outro, como se articulam os diversos elementos culturais, tanto na constituição da identidade das personagens como na construção do romance. As narrativas de Maxine Hong Kingston revelam processos de hibridização, característicos de um autor diaspórico. / This dissertation deals with the processes of identity formation as observed in the works of the Chinese-American writer Maxine Hong Kingston, especially in her book The woman warrior – memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, first published in 1976. The different meanings of subjectivity that can take shape in an American of Chinese descent, encompassing an individual’s contradictions and fragmentation, are analyzed. The theoretical framework is based on critics of postmodernism and on cultural studies about diasporas. Since the middle of the eighteenth century a great number of Asian immigrants moved to the United States, taking along with them their different values and behavior patterns. A person growing up in the intersection of cultures has to deal with conflicts and paradoxes, resulting in identities that are contradictory and fragmentary. This dissertation seeks to unravel, on one hand, the processes of identity formation among the Chinese-Americans, faced as they are by two distinct value systems. On the other hand, find out how the different cultural elements are articulated both in the identity formation of the characters and in the construction of the novel. The narratives of Maxine Hong Kingston reveal processes of hybridization, which are characteristic of a diasporic author.
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A poética da diáspora de Fádia Faqir, uma filha de Allah /

Gandra, Lucilea Ferreira Gandra January 2020 (has links)
Orientador: Maria Dolores Aybar Ramirez / Resumo: Ao nos decidirmos, inicialmente, por um levantamento arqueológico de mulheres escritoras árabes/muçulmanas para uma escolha posterior de obras que nos levassem a um maior conhecimento dessa literatura, deparamos com a escassez de traduções e publicações no Brasil, em comparação com o grande número existente em outros países, principalmente da Europa e da América do Norte. Acreditamos que isso se deva a maior presença dessas mulheres escritoras em tais continentes, gerando um fascínio pelo exótico, mas também um misto de atração e repulsão, sempre acompanhado de estereótipos, já enraizados pelo orientalismo. No Brasil, no entanto, salvo raras exceções, as editoras voltaram-se quase que exclusivamente para as autobiografias de mulheres que tecem duras críticas aos seus países de origem, às suas leis, à situação e normas de conduta para as mulheres, na maioria restritivas e opressoras, reafirmando uma imagem já impregnada de preconceitos. Vemos assim que a oferta de publicações em nosso país também nos impede uma visão mais abrangente e nos força a ratificar impressões essencialistas que em nada contribuem para o conhecimento e possível fruição da literatura produzida por essas mulheres, agora veladas, inclusive, por questões mercadológicas que camuflam e perpetuam as mesmas visões engessadas. Na tentativa de fugir desses relatos, sempre carregados de perseguição e dor, priorizamos para o nosso estudo o romance Meu nome é Salma, da autora jordaniano-britânica Fadia Faqir pois su... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: When deciding, initially, for an archaeological survey of Arab/Muslim women writers for a later choice of works which would lead us to a greater knowledge of this literature, we faced the scarcity of translations and publications in Brazil, in comparison with the large number which exists in other countries, mainly in Europe and North America. We believe that this is due to the greater presence of these women writers in such continents, creating a fascination with the exotic, but also a mixture of attraction and repulsion, always accompanied by stereotypes, already rooted by Orientalism. In Brazil, however, with a few rare exceptions, publishers turned almost exclusively to the autobiographies of women who harshly criticize their countries of origin, their laws, the situation and rules of conduct for women, most of which are restrictive and oppressive, reaffirming an image already steeped in prejudice. We thus see that the supply of publications in our country also prevents us from taking a more comprehensive view and forces us to ratify essentialist impressions which in no way contribute to the knowledge and possible enjoyment of the literature produced by these women, now veiled, by marketing issues which camouflage and perpetuate the same plastered visions. So as to escape these accounts, always laden with persecution and pain, we prioritized the novel My name is Salma, by the Jordanian-British author Fadia Faqir because her narrative, written in English, involves other di... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre
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“It was about topics that related to Asian Americans”

Naree, Thea January 2020 (has links)
Following the development of Asian American representation in the United States media in the 21st century, this thesis aims to explore the alternative narratives provided by the AsianBossGirl podcast which started in 2017 to fill the gap in the mainstream media. Intersectional framework has been operationalized to conduct an in-depth reading of their narratives, and complemented by the theory of uses and gratification to investigate the impacts that they have on their audiences. The results demonstrate that their narratives of Asian American experience deviate from both cultural and stereotypical traditions. They contest the norms through relatable, subversive and authentic content that resonate with their listeners. However, through the intersectional lens, this thesis is able to identify the danger of neglecting multidimensionality in the Asian American communities which encompass a diverse history of immigration in the United States.
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Diaspora Media: A Rhizomatic Study of Identity, Resistance and Citizenship

Pascasio, Luis 03 June 2021 (has links)
No description available.

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