Tamilnet.com: Some Reflections on Popular Anthropology, Nationalism, and the Internet.

In this essay I argue that Tamilnet.com, an Internet news agency put together by a group of Sri Lankan Tamils to address the Tamil diaspora and influence English-speaking elites, subverted international news coverage during Sri Lanka's civil war by making “ironic” use of the discursive styles of jou...

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Published in:Anthropological Quarterly Vol. 77; no. 3; pp. 469 - 499
Main Author: Whitaker, Mark P.
Format: Article
Published: George Washington Institute for Ethnographic Research Summer 2004
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