A Critical Analysis of the Life of the Bangladeshi Diasporic Women in the Website addacafe.com 

University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation (JMK)

Author: Ariful Haque; [2011]

Keywords: Gender; Community; Feminism; New media; Materiality;

Abstract:

Although the computer is the new technology, extraordinarily at a fast pace it received huge acclaim from every level of our society, since the new medium is offering very different sort of life inside the computer screen which was beyond our imagination few years back. The virtual environment which is offered by the computer mediated communication proposes new sort of relationship with the new technology. The new media assists us to modify some of our ideas about life on earth. For example, physical immediacy is no longer inevitable for friendship. This thesis paper is designed to conduct an analysis on the life of the diasporic Bangladeshi women in a website called addacafe.com. Everyday a number of Bangladeshi women visit that site. This research paper poses some research questions at the beginning. Through the answers of the questions, the diasporic women’s expectations, desires, and on the whole their daily experiences in the virtual site came out.

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