Migration and new media

By Mirca Madianou

Subjects: Southeast asia, social conditions, Technological innovations, Foreign workers, Philippine Foreign workers, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS, Filipino Foreign workers, Communication internationale, Labor, Philippines, social conditions, Communication dans la famille, Communication interpersonnelle, Women foreign workers, Communication, international, Innovations, Travailleuses étrangères, Family relationships, Interpersonal communication, Relations familiales, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Children of foreign workers, Travailleurs étrangers philippins, Communication in families, Social aspects, Aspect social, International Communication, Enfants de travailleurs étrangers, Labor & Industrial Relations

Description: "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.