New Media and Diaspora Perspectives of Representation and Usage

Abstract

Media is a space where interests, ideas and identities are negotiated. The nature and extent of communication, exchange and negotiation is explored by different people differently. It presents an interactive democratic platform for minorities especially the diasporic groups. The diaspora while living-in at some place they sustain their connection including political, social and cultural across the borders, largely through new media. This article argues that diaspora minority groups use the new media to make sense of their cultural and political belongings. This paper looks at the multi-spatial character of communication pattern and mobilization of new media age usage by minorities especially Kashmiri Pandits. They are an important ethno-religious minority displaced due to socio-political reasons from their native place – Kashmir in North India.