Puerto Rican Soldiers and Second-Class Citizenship
Representations in Media
Seiten
2014
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1st ed. 2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-49859-8 (ISBN)
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-49859-8 (ISBN)
Puerto Rican soldiers have been consistently whitewashed out of the narrative of American history despite playing parts in all American wars since WWI. This book examines the online self-representation of Puerto Rican soldiers who served during the War on Terror, focusing on social networking sites, user-generated content, and web memorials.
Manúel Avilés-Santiago is Assistant Professor of Communication and Culture at Arizona State University, USA.
Introduction 1. Saving Private Fulano de Tal: Representations of Puerto Rican Soldiers in Television and Film 2. Digital Bodies at War: The Boricua Soldier in Social Networking Sites 3. Broadcasting Puerto Ricanness: Mash-up Identities in the User-Generated-Content Zone 4. Digital Epitaphs: Web memorializing Puerto Rican Soldiers in the 21st Century Conclusions
Erscheinungsdatum | 06.07.2020 |
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Zusatzinfo | XIV, 223 p. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
Schlagworte | Afghanistan • Air Force • Army • cultural citizenship • ethnonational identity • Iraq • Marines • Military • Navy • Puerto Rican identity • Puerto Rico • second-class citizenship • Social Networks • soldiers • user-generated content sites • veterans • war • web memorials |
ISBN-10 | 1-349-49859-9 / 1349498599 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-349-49859-8 / 9781349498598 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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