Abstract
This book comprises a number of interesting articles on postcolonial communication mostly from scholars working in departments other than communication and media studies where perhaps the concept of the postcolonial is more widely accepted as a term of critical inquiry. There is an essay on the World Social Forum and whether technologies were successful in connecting ‘the peripheries’. This is followed by an essay on BBC World Service Internet forums and how religion is debated there which usefully examines three repertoires: the Islamist, the national and the liberal. Next is an essay on a Northern Irish video artist whose works criticises the surveillance regimes of the British government in Derry. The subject of popular culture and Muslim youth culture is discussed by Maruta Herding extending existing work in the area to an examination of uses of new media technologies in identity formation. Sandra Annett discusses how new media and the subversive audience can potentially take us beyond neo-cultural imperialism in her analysis of Betty Boop and the disruptive representation of Sita Sings the Blues. The final essays focus on film, literature and poetry, respectively. This is probably not a book that the majority of media and communication scholars would come across in their normal day-to-day work, but there is much of interest and value here suggesting that a dialogue between scholars from different disciplines who all nevertheless write about media, old and new, would be productive.