Constructing Identity: Palestine Online (Society and the Internet Lecture Series, Part 16)
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Dates:
Tuesday 6 March 2012, 16:00:00 - 17:30:00
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Location:
Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3JS United Kingdom
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Register
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This talk explores how, for Palestine's diaspora and exiled communities, the Internet has become an important medium for the formation of Palestinian national and transnational identity.
For Palestine’s diaspora and exiled communities, the Internet has become an important medium for the formation of Palestinian national and transnational identity. This talk looks at the Internet as both a space and an instrument for linking Palestinian diasporas in Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon – communities usually separated by state boundaries and travel restrictions.
About the speakers
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Dr Miriyam Aouragh
Oxford Internet Institute