Digital Country: Transnationalism and Basque imagined community
Keywords:
internet, identity, Basque Country, digital country, imagined communityAbstract
Basque diaspora is a topic that has been thoroughly studied, however, the effects of information and communications technology (ITC) over the Basque migrants are an object of study still to be investigated. Through two Doctoral Thesis, this article discusses qualitative and ethnographically how Basque citizens build national identity outside the Basque Country through blogs and Facebook, both in Diaspora groups as in and not as consolidated groups. The analysis of blogs shows that Internet is a tool to build and maintain Basque identity and while the Facebook one shows it is a space that citizens lives. Therefore, it can be said that different traits and different identity constructions of migrants and those living in the Basque Country meet in the Hyperspace. Which leads to identity tensions by opposing different constructions of national identity from dif- ferent social and historical perspectives.
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