Floating Lives: The Media and Asian Diasporas (Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture)

Floating Lives is a unique examination of media and communication within diasporic ethnic communities, using in-depth studies of some of Australia's main Asian diasporic groups: the Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese, and Thai communities. Going beyond conventional cross-cultural studies of mainstream media consumption, this book explores the ethnic community as a determining force in negotiating new hybrid identities and cultures--and demonstrates experiences common to diasporic communities worldwide. Diasporas And The Media / John Sinclair And Stuart Cunningham -- Chinese Cosmopolitanism And Media Use / John Sinclair ... [et Al.] -- Popular Media Of The Vietnamese Diaspora / Stuart Cunningham And Tina Nguyen -- Bollywood Down Under : Fiji Indian Cultural History And Popular Assertion / Manas Ray -- Mi Arai Mai Mai Mai? : Thai-australian Video Ways / Glen Lewis And Chalinee Hirano. Edited By Stuart Cunningham And John Sinclair. Originally Published: St. Lucia, Queensland : University Of Queensland Press, 2000. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.