Communications technologies and transnational networks

Jolynna Sinanan, Heather A. Horst

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![CDATA[This chapter presents a concise summary of the literature that has informed the way we think about the relationship between communications technologies and their impact on transnational networks. We focus on communications practices, or how technologies are a key part of transnational networks that shapes migrant experiences of family and other social networks. Firstly, we outline scholarship that has focussed on communication technologies prior to the ubiquity of digital media: phone calls, letters and audio cassettes in relation to the maintenance and transformation of transnational networks. Secondly, we trace the impact of social and digital media in communication within transnational networks. And thirdly, we draw on our own ethnographic research in communication technologies and transnational networks in the Caribbean, combining over twenty years of experience in the Jamaican context and ten years of experience in the Trinidadian context. Through these ethnographic studies, we reflect on our research on cellular, mobile and social media technologies in transnational relationships.]]
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHandbook on Transnationalism
EditorsBrenda Yeoh, Francis Collins
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherEdward Elgar Publishing
Pages371-387
Number of pages17
ISBN (Electronic)9781789904017
ISBN (Print)9781789904000
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2022

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