Media Culture in Nomadic Communities
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Media Culture in Nomadic Communities
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€ 117,00 excl. VAT
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9789463723022
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Hardback
Number of pages
222
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English
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15.6 x 23.4 cm
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Table of Contents
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: ICT Development for Mobile Communities
Chapter 3: Maasai Online Petitions
Chapter 4: Inner Mongolian Online Identity
Chapter 5: Bedouin Poetry in Personal and Public Spheres
Chapter 6: Mongolia's Cell Phone Referendum
Chapter 7: Sámi Protests to Preserve the Artic
Chapter 8: Standing Rock Unites International Protesters
Chapter 9: New Herding Networks
Index
Bibliography

Reviews and Features

"[...] refreshing and hopeful in showing how nomadic communities are embracing modernity in ways that improve their mobile lives and transform their image."
- Ann Waters.Bayer, Pastoralism, Vol. 13 (2023)

Allison Hahn

Media Culture in Nomadic Communities

Media Culture in Nomadic Communities examines the ways that new technologies and ICT infrastructures have changed the communicative norms and patterns that regulate mobile and nomadic communities’ engagement in local and international deliberative decision-making. Each chapter examines a unique communicative event, such has how the Maasai of Tanzania have used online petitions to demand government action, how Mongolians in northern China have used microblogs to record and debate land tenure, and how herding communities from around the world have supported the Lakota Sioux protests at Standing Rock. Through these case studies, Hahn argues that mobile and nomadic communities are creating and utilizing new communicative networks that are radically changing local, national, and international deliberations.
Author

Allison Hahn

Allison Hailey Hahn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY). Her research and teaching examine the ways that information and communication technologies influence argumentation strategies and communicative networks among pastoral-nomadic communities in Kenya, Tanzania, Mongolia, and China.