Full Description
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.
Contents
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
