TY - BOOK ID - 77919045 TI - Eelam online : the Tamil diaspora and war in Sri Lanka PY - 2010 SN - 1283142430 9786613142436 1443827940 9781443827942 9781283142434 144382691X 9781443826914 6613142433 PB - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., DB - UniCat KW - Tamil (Indic people) KW - Internet KW - DARPA Internet KW - Internet (Computer network) KW - Wide area networks (Computer networks) KW - World Wide Web KW - Tamal (Indic people) KW - Tamalsan (Indic people) KW - Tambul (Indic people) KW - Tamili (Indic people) KW - Tamils KW - Ethnology KW - Political activity KW - Political aspects KW - Sri Lanka KW - Politics and government UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77919045 AB - The book details the potential of computer mediated technologies, particularly the internet, in creation and nurturing political and cultural identities among the widely dispersed "conflict-generated" Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora and traces the engagement of the disapora in Australia Other the online media in the struggle for a homeland. Taking the ethnic issue in Sri Lanka as a given, the book explores the way in which new media have added dimensions to the issue. Although the theoretical framew... ER -