ABSTRACT

The four articles presented in this collection on the topic ‘Space, time, and culture on African/diaspora websites’ address African/diaspora websites and their networks in divergent ways and focus on a number of broad themes. These are: that the future is located in and shaped by the past; movement and displacement in geographical terms are re-conceptualised through website activities to produce discourses of identity; online and offline interactions are linked and there is fluid passage between the two; while web design programmes define the visual and content-based structure in vertical and horizontal sections, the websites analysed here are individualised by the specific collection of texts and images and the more or less extended presence of sounds and videos; the Internet has enhanced the possibilities for visibility and has opened up a range of new dynamics for creating and reaching out to publics, also for individuals or groups that are not likely to acquire a voice on traditional media platforms.

摘要

本系列中有关“非洲/散居国外网站上的空间，时间和文化”主题的四篇文章以不同的方式论述了非洲/散居海外网站及其网络，并着重于许多广泛的主题。它们是：未来位于过去并由过去塑造；通过网站活动重新概念化地理上的移动和位移，以产生身份话语；线上和线下的互动是相互联系的，两者之间存在着流畅的通道；网页设计程序在垂直和水平方向上定义了基于视觉和内容的结构，而此处分析的网站则是通过特定的文本和图像集合以及或多或少的声音和视频扩展个性化的；