Diasporic Media beyond the Diaspora

Sherry S. Yu is an assistant professor in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media and the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Her research explores media, culture, and technology in communication, with a special interest in diasporic media in relation to cultural literacy, intercultural dialogue, and civic engagement in a multicultural society. Her research has been published in scholarly journals such as Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, the Canadian Journal of Communication, and Canadian Ethnic Studies.

There are only a small handful of studies that take seriously the work of conceptualizing “ethnic media” as diasporic studies. Sherry Yu’s detailed description of the structural challenges of diasporic media is unlike anything I have read before. It is an important contribution to a field that is dominated by textual study.