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Emily Noelle Ignacio explores how Filipinos have used the Internet's subtle, cyber, but very real social connections to construct and reinforce a sense of national, ethnic, and racial identity with distant others.

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Building Diaspora heralds an important development in cultural studies, ethnic studies, the sociology of media, and globalization. Emily Ignacio brings an extended, incisive-empirical investigation that is still quite rare in the theory-heavy yet data-light field of cyberspace cultural studies. She carefully crafts a framework in which to showcase the itinerant ideas and desires of Filipinos talking to each other from various geographical locations.

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Emily Noelle Ignacio is an assistant professor of sociology at Loyola University in Chicago. She has published articles on the effect of media technologies on communities in The Sociological Quarterly, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, and Library Trends.

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