Description: Globalization's Impact on Cultural Identity Formation examines the range of factors that affect the cultural identity formation of diasporic, queer bodies in the context of globalization. Atay utilizes cyber-ethnography, a critical research method, to investigate these aspects...
Brief description: Ahmet Atay is Professor of Global Media and Communication at the College of Wooster, USA. His research focuses on diasporic experiences and cultural identity formations; British and US soap operas, the usage of new media technologies in different settings; and the notion of home; representation of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in media; queer and immigrant experiences in cyberspace, and critical communication pedagogies.
Review Quotes:
"Atay provides important critical advancements in cyber-ethnography. He brings together interpretations of access (ability, linguistic, and economic), diasporic identity, and cyber space queer self-presentations to open new discussions for the ever-changing possibilities of social media." --Alberto González, Bowling Green State University
"This book is an important interrogation of both sexuality and diaspora that stands to make a fine contribution to current work on queer intercultural communication scholarship." --Shiv Ganesh, Massey University