TY - BOOK ID - 439442 TI - Migration and new media : transnational families and polymedia AU - Madianou, Mirca AU - Miller, Daniel PY - 2012 SN - 9780415679282 9780415679299 9780203154236 9781136577581 9781136577536 9781136577574 PB - London Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Migration. Refugees KW - Computer. Automation KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - Mass communications KW - Maatschappelijk werk KW - Migratie KW - Sociaal werk KW - Children of foreign workers KW - Communication in families KW - Communication, International KW - Foreign workers, Filipino KW - Interpersonal communication KW - Women foreign workers KW - Foreign women workers KW - Women alien labor KW - Migrant women labor (Foreign workers) KW - Migrant women workers (Foreign workers) KW - Women migrant labor (Foreign workers) KW - Women migrant workers (Foreign workers) KW - Foreign workers KW - Women employees KW - Communication KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Alien labor, Philippine KW - Filipino foreign workers KW - Foreign workers, Philippine KW - Philippine foreign workers KW - International communication KW - World communication KW - Communication in the family KW - Family communication KW - Families KW - Children of alien laborers KW - Foreign workers' children KW - Family relationships KW - Technological innovations KW - Social aspects KW - Travailleurs étrangers philippins KW - Travailleuses étrangères KW - Enfants de travailleurs étrangers KW - Communication dans la famille KW - Communication interpersonnelle KW - Communication internationale KW - Famille KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Philippines KW - Innovations KW - Aspect social UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:439442 AB - "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. ER -