[ecrea] new book: Migration, Media, and Global-Local Spaces (Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication)

I would like to share the news that my book MIGRATION, MEDIA, AND
GLOBAL-LOCAL SPACES has just been released in print and e-book, in the
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN SERIES IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL COMMUNICATION.
Please see below for details, consider including it in your course
reading material, and forward this information to your contacts. I will
send a separate email regarding the book launch and industry public
panel for those who are able to participate in Melbourne. Thank you for
your support. :)

WHAT IS THIS BOOK ABOUT?

This book explores how we define our social spaces in a world of
globalization, cultural diversity, and media convergence. It invites us
to consider how each of us relates to multiple people and places
worldwide through migration and media. Critiquing our focus on nation,
state, and particular countries of origin and settlement, this book
offers a new conceptual approach to study contemporary migration and
media. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Singaporean university
students in Melbourne, Australia, this book details how we organize our
social relations into diverse configurations of global and local spaces.
This book aims to help university students, researchers, and members of
the public to think more critically about how we develop our mental maps
of the world, experience the migration of others and ourselves, and
shape our media environments.

WHAT DO EXPERTS IN MEDIA AND SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH THINK ABOUT THIS BOOK?

"As migration is one of the key themes of the networked 21st century,
this book makes a timely and critical contribution to our understanding
of communication across diverse migration processes. Esther Chin offers
a much needed theoretical approach which allows us to assess the new
dense relationships between communication and mobility, creating new
spaces for civic identity beyond the nation-state. Without a doubt, the
book sets the agenda for a new field in transnational communication."

- Ingrid Volkmer, Associate Professor in the Department of Media and
Communications, University of Melbourne, Australia

"This fine book provides fresh insights into two defining global
dynamics of the twenty-first century: migration and media. With a keen
theoretical intelligence, Esther Chin greatly advances our understanding
of how contemporary social and mobile media undergird people's need to
inhabit a plurality of social spaces, creating distinctive
'cartographies of the social'. Essential reading that will equally
require us to rethink migration and the place(s) of media."

- Gerard Goggin, Professor of Media and Communications, University of
Sydney, Australia

"This book provides a novel and innovative spatial analysis of
migration, where the spaces are mediated, local, and global. It delivers
a nuanced and compelling account of how migrants experience their lives,
where the global and local shape the social spaces they inhabit. Esther
Chin shows how media and spaces interact in a process of 'glocal
cosmopolitanism', a concept which aims to move beyond nations and states
to capture the interconnected globalised world we now inhabit."

- Karen Farquharson, Associate Dean (Research & Engagement) and
Associate Professor Sociology, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

HOW CAN I ACCESS THIS BOOK?

Email (customerservice /at/ springer.com) <mailto:(customerservice /at/ springer.com)>
to order your book directly from the publisher, from anywhere in the world.

You can also order the book from
Amazon<http://www.amazon.co.uk/Migration-Global-Local-MacMillan-International-Communication/dp/1137558563> 

or your local store.

Please request your local academic/public library to buy this book and
make it available for other readers.

WHAT IS THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK?

Discounted price until 30th April 2016: Quote 'PM16THIRTY' to buy the
book at £47.60 or $73.50. This offer is only available to individual
(not library/trade) customers.

The publisher has priced this book at £68.00 or $105.00.

*Dr Esther Chin*

Lecturer in Media and Communications

Faculty of Health, Arts and Design

Swinburne University of Technology

Australia


https://au.linkedin.com/in/estherchinyw

Chin, E. (2016). /Migration, Media, and Global-Local Spaces/. Palgrave
Macmillan.



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