Diasporas and the Media

The 'Media Consumption' session started with Lisa Yuk Leun, from the University of Lingran, in Hong Kong, with her study "Negotiating (Diasporic) Identities: South Asians' pro/consumption of Tv Dramas on the Internet in Hong Kong". It discussed themes related with ethnic minorities: does the media help to discriminate these groups and how are they differentiated by type of consume.

From the University of London, in the United Kingdom, Ana Catarina Pereira brought "Sensing Memories and Belongings through Media Consumption among Portuguese Muslims of Indian and Mozambican Origin". She focused on the way these groups experience and deal with the contact with some cultural signs or memories of their home.

"Latin American Diaspora and the Media - a Comparative Study of Ethnic Media in Los Angeles and Madrid" by Jessica Retis, from the University of California (California State), in USA, focused on how the media controle the image of, for example, the latin population: including or excluding them in the social living.

Andreia Mandim and Inês Espojeira