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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
In this article, analysis focuses on the websites of Greek-American diaspora organisations. The aim is to study these media outlets on two levels: (1) with regard to their communication function(s), in order to understand the spectrum of usages they offer to their visitors; and (2) with regard to the way they signify identity specificity at the crossroads of a parallel ethnic or national adherence. The low interactivity constitutes one of the general features of the media analysed. The persistence of the nation as the framework to apprehend collective belonging and the interaction with the 'other' is another recurrent and important element. The 'identity specificity' of the Greek diaspora community is not presented in articulation to the host society, but in terms of a continuous attachment to a 'mother-nation', as a historic and cultural entity. The nationhood claimed and promoted in this manner is ethnic and cultural, and it espouses the form of an ecumenical and transcendent Hellenism.
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