Digital Homeland: Polonia on the World Wide Web

• Authors: Zdzisław Głębocki
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

For diasporic communities like Polonia, globally dispersed across space and time, the World Wide Web and electronically mediated forms of communication are ways of manifesting their presence and identity in the global context providing at the same time an anchor with the homeland. Tis article tracks the cyber-presence of Polonia on the World Wide Web and documents inreach sites focused on local communities and outreach sites geared at establishing links with the homeland and historical contexts. It also explores issues connectedwith marginalized Polonia communities (i.e. the digital underclass) which lack economic resources to fully participate in contemporary cyberculture.

Keywords

EN

DIASPORA; HOMELAND; POLONIA; WORLD WIDE WEB

• Journal: Pogranicze. Studia Społeczne
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 20
• Pages: 271-295

Contributors

author

Zdzisław Głębocki

• Uniwersytet w Białymstoku, Wydział Filologiczny, 15-420 Białystok, Pl. Uniwersytecki 1, Poland.