TY  - BOOK
AU  - Madianou,Mirca
AU  - Miller,Daniel
TI  - Migration and new media: transnational families and polymedia 
SN  - 9780415679282 (hc : alk. paper)
U1  - 331.40941 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Foreign workers, Filipino
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Women foreign workers
KW  - Children of foreign workers
KW  - Philippines
KW  - Communication in families
KW  - Interpersonal communication
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Communication, International
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Philippines and globalisation : migration, mothering and communications -- Why they go and why they stay -- Letters and cassettes -- The mothers' perspective -- The children's perspective -- The technology of relationships -- Polymedia -- A theory of mediated relationships; ssh
N2  - "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  -