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India: online community building by the Indian diaspora

India.com: online community building by the Indian diaspora. Virtual space & place. contexts for distanciated interaction non-physical centers of care and identity formation television Internet chat rooms BBS “blogs” community networks etc.

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India: online community building by the Indian diaspora

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  1. India.com: online community building by the Indian diaspora

  2. Virtual space & place • contexts for distanciated interaction • non-physical centers of care and identity formation • television • Internet • chat rooms • BBS • “blogs” • community networks • etc.

  3. Is there a way to think of virtual space/place that is people-centered rather than medium-centered?

  4. The extensible individual

  5. Communication situations as topologies

  6. Network topology vs. radial topology

  7. A virtual space by and for a particular community • built “in” various media • defined by the needs, desires, plans and projects of a particular community • or communities

  8. Bridgespace • a virtual space “designed” (or rather evolving) as a bridge between: • separate times • personal biography • national history • separate places • continents • locales (cities, towns, states) • cultures

  9. Bridgespace politics • intervenes in the construction of nation • perpetuates a national identity among members of several associated diasporas • perpetuates ethnic identities that are transplanted into a host community that does not recognize them • constitutes “sub-ethnicity” • intervenes various ways in the construction of self

  10. Bridgespace economics • a marketplace for goods • access to material culture • access to potential customers • a marketplace for services • employment • immigration • tax advice • a channel • for overseas investment • for remittances & overseas gift-giving • for the formation/maintenance of professional ties

  11. Culture in bridgespace • slowing diffusion • intergenerational transmission • intercontinental exchange (of “traditional” culture) • accelerating diffusion • intercontinental exchange (of “non-traditional” culture) • hybridization • material • institutional • ideological

  12. Why NRIs? • Collaborative project w/ Rina Ghose, (Illinois State U./U. Wisc. at Milwaukee) • special group • high level of technological expertise • high income (above U.S. median) • recent arrival (1990s for most) • various forms of multilingualism including English as second language • actually multiple groups

  13. TOPOLOGY of the NRI bridgespace

  14. Places within bridgespace • hub sites • ION • EGON • LRSEGO • retail sites • cooking site • religious sites • matrimonial sites

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