Media Culture in Nomadic Communities examines the ways that new technologies and ICT infrastructures have changed the communicative norms and patterns that regulate mobile and nomadic communities' engagement in local and international deliberative decision making. Each chapter examines a unique communicative event, such has how the Maasai of Tanzania have used online petitions to demand government action. How Mongolians in northern China have used micro blogs to record and debate land tenure. And how herding communities from around the world have supported the Lakota Sioux protests at Standing Rock. Through these case studies, Hahn argues that mobile and nomadic communities are creating and utilizing new communicative networks that are radically changing local, national, and international deliberations.

Allison Hailey Hahn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY). Her research and teaching examine the ways that information and communication technologies influence argumentation strategies and communicative networks amongst pastoral-nomadic communities in Kenya, Tanzania, Mongolia and China.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: ICT Development for Mobile Communities

Chapter 3: Maasai Online Petitions

Chapter 4: Inner Mongolian Online Identity

Chapter 5: Bedouin Poetry in Personal and Public Spheres

Chapter 6: Mongolia's Cell Phone Referendum

Chapter 7: Sámi Protests to Preserve the Artic

Chapter 8: Standing Rock Unites International Protesters

Chapter 9: New Herding Networks

Index

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