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- Title: Interrogating Diaspora: Wang Gungwu's Pulse.
- Author : Ariel
- Release Date : January 01, 2002
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 204 KB
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In June 2000, the British entertainment company Altitude introduced one of the first of a now growing number of the multiplayer online game universes. Altitude's universe enabled participants to pilot spacecraft between planets and build up communities of "guilds," if not ethnicities. The game proved exceptionally popular, its denizens engaged--surely rather schizophrenically--in "trading, killing and socializing" while exploring what was at the time one of the largest environments ever created. In such a globalized utopia, transnational capitalism was not neglected--the game, as initially described, had a full range of advertising and sponsorship options available, from "bladerunneresque" ship sponsorship through banner ads to 3D branding of the bars on different planets" ("Games Oasis"). Searching for a name for its new environment, Altitude chose a word that had gained increasing currency in both academic and popular circles in the previous decade: Diaspora. In the global community of literary and cultural studies, the term diaspora had enjoyed a similar explosion in popularity. Initially used largely in the context of the dispersal of Jews from Palestine, and by analogy to describe the forced migration of African peoples to the Americas, the term has gradually widened in scope. Since the late 1980s it has been common, for instance, to write of the Indian and Chinese diasporas, and, from the middle of the 1990s, diaspora has been increasingly divorced from the description of a single community: diasporic consciousness is, it seems, something that we all share in an increasingly transnational world.
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