DIASPORA IS GOING ONLINE. IDENTITY, LANGUAGE AND DIGITAL COMMUNICATION
DIASPORA IS GOING ONLINE. IDENTITY, LANGUAGE AND DIGITAL COMMUNICATION

Summary/Abstract: The notion of diaspora had a long journey and today it came to designate almost any group living out of the country of origin and developing a self-consciousness, an emergent identity and specific relationships with homeland and hostland. Conceived as “imagined” or real communities the revived interest in studying diaspora comprises almost every aspect of this old but also modern or maybe postmodern form of social existence. Nevertheless a synthetic overview on the links between language, identity and communication is still useful and might bring new interpretations on a very current phenomenon and maybe offer a key of understanding the way our world is dwelling in discourse, understood as spoken or written language, if we were to paraphrase a famous line of Hölderlin:” ... full of merit, yet poetically, man dwells on this earth”. Maybe one of the biggest challenges our world is facing is to dial with the new technology and to includes it in an effective and harmonious way in daily existence, not only because media itself is the message (McLuhan) but also because media is telling us in a time when we are not only receptors and readers but also co-creators of public discourse as we can see in the following.

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