El impacto de los medios digitales en las relaciones entre la diáspora vasca y el País Vasco

Maialen Goirizelaia; Leire Iturregui

doi:10.4185/RLCS-2019-1382

Authors

Maialen Goirizelaia Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9478-1503
Leire Iturregui Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea UPV/EHU https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9675-4218

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2019-1382

Keywords:

Diaspora, Basque Diaspora, digital media revolution, public policies, media of diaspora

Abstract

Introduction. The response of this paper is to examine the communication between the Basque Diaspora and the Basque Country and the impacts that digital media have in this field. There have always existed communication between the Basque Country and the Basque communities overseas; nevertheless, until 1994 there was no existing established legal relation between them. Methodology. To round out the study, 21 interviews were conducted with members of the Basque Diaspora in the United States and Argentina; responsibles of Basque Digital newspapers; the responsible of the Basque Digital Public Television; the responsible of the only Basque Diasporic Media. Results and conclusions. The digitization of the media has contributed to the objectives of Law 8/1994 inasmuch as it offers the diaspora updated information on the Basque Country, but it is limited to a one-way communication. The diaspora opts for social networks for interaction and for institutional information (Basque Government) and the 'diaspora media' to access information about their country of origin and other Basque communities abroad.

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Author Biographies

Maialen Goirizelaia, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Maialen Goirizelaia is a Ph.D. student at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU. She has an undergraduate in Advertisement and Public Relations (2011) and a graduate in International Studies (2012), both from the University of the Basque Country. After finishing her graduate she has been working in the Spanish Consulate in Amsterdam (2012), in a Basque local Television for a year (2013-2014) and in the Foreign Affairs Department of the Basque Government (2015) working with the Basque Communities abroad. That topic has always been an interesting topic for her and, because of that, she is now doing her dissertation about the Communication between the Basque Country and the Basque Diaspora in the United States and the effect of those Diaspora communities in order to create relations between the Host Country and the Country of Origin. She is member of Bitartez, a Consolidated Research Group of the Basque Government

Leire Iturregui, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea UPV/EHU

Leire Iturregui Mardaras PhD at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, degree in Journalism and in Political Science and Administration. She is Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Journalism II, at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication at the UPV/EHU. Her research focuses are conflict journalism (war and peace journalism), organizational communication, and journalists’ working conditions. She currently teaches Press Offices and Broadcasting and writing in radio in the Degree of Journalism and graduate teaching of Organizational Communication and Conflict Journalism. She is member of Bitartez, a Consolidated Research Group of the Basque Government.

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