DIASPORA AND IDENTITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE: CULTURAL COMMUNITIES AND THE NATION

Vandana PEDNEKAR-MAGAL

doi:10.24193/subbeph.2019.1.04

Authors

Vandana PEDNEKAR-MAGAL PhD Professor, School of Communications, Grand Valley State University, Michigan, USA. pednekav@gvsu.edu.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbeph.2019.1.04

Keywords:

cultural identity, diasporic cultural communities, digital diaspora

Abstract

The following article is based on a keynote speech on Diaspora and Identity in the digital age. Cultural Communities and the Nation delivered at Media Culture Days at the College of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, on May 17, 2019

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