1st Edition
Is There a Home in Cyberspace? The Internet in Migrants' Everyday Life and the Emergence of Global Communities
A. Migration—Media—Everyday Life 1. Introduction 2. The Tragedy of Ycua Bolaños—Ethnographic Prelude 3. The Making of Globality in Migrants’ Mediatized Everyday Lives 4. WWW.Cibervalle.com—A Global Lifeworld ‘à lo Paraguayo’ 5. Methodological Challenges and Book Structure B. Hopping-On—Hopping-Off: The Art of Positioning Ethnography in Global Landscapes 6. Ethnographers on Their Way to World Society 7. Multi-Sited Ethnography—A Methodology for the Mediatized Global Society? 8. Developments in Internet Research (and) Cultures 9. A Tailor-Made Research Design for Cibervalle C. Social Landscapes of Cibervalle 10. Paraguay: A (Hi)story of Migration 11. Where and with Whom to Drink Terere†: Cibervalle ‘Multi-Sited’ D. Cibervalle’s Communicative Architecture 12. How to Analyze Computer-Mediated Sociality 13. Structure and Techno-Social Evolution of the Cibervalle Forum 14. Global Togetherness in Cibervalle 15. "Now the World Is Watching You!"—How Cibervallers Once Became ‘Global Players’. Final Remarks
Biography
Heike Mónika Greschke is a sociologist at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen.
