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...
| Published in: | Anthropological Quarterly Vol. 77; no. 3; pp. 469 - 499 |
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George Washington Institute for Ethnographic Research
Summer 2004
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