By J. Sheyholislami
Educated via the interdisciplinary technique of severe Discourse research (CDA) and theories of id, country, and media, the examine investigates the methods Kurds, the world’s biggest stateless state, use satellite tv for pc tv and net to build their identities. This e-book examines the complicated interrelationships among ethno-national identities, discourses, and new media. not just does offer the 1st examine of discursive structures of Kurdish identification within the new media, this e-book is additionally the 1st CDA proficient comparative research of the contents of the 2 media. The examine pushes the limits of the growing to be region of experiences of id, nationalism and transnationalism, discourse stories, minority language, and electronic media.
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Investigating the ways in which television mediates national identity construction in Greece, Madianou (2005) analyzed 473 news stories. The author observes that “the nation, the common ‘we’, is continually invoked both through the text and the form of the news” (p. 5). In addition to conducting a qualitative analysis of the news, Madianou conducts interviews with audiences to investigate the ways in which viewers interpret the news and draw on the contents and themes of the news to articulate their own identities.
To illustrate this, I will first present the Internet data collected for this study. This is followed by a description of the Kurdish Internet constituents, for example, websites, chat-rooms, blogs, forums, and other social networking tools like YouTube and Facebook. The origins of the Internet among the Kurds and the extent to which they have been used are reported. Observations will be based on my active observation of Kurdish online activities for more than a decade, and correspondence and interviews with people who have been involved in both production and consumption of Kurdish Internet texts.
39). Thus, one can suggest that in the projects of creating national identities, mass media of communication are important because they carry messages that inject new ideas and values or reinforce old myths and memories, which can instigate national awareness, start or intensify nationalist movements, or preserve and reconstruct national identities. In addition to privileging the technological aspect of media over their contents, traditional conceptualizations of the place of media in projects of nationalism have tended to privilege print over other forms of communication (Smith, 1998).