グローバル化時代におけるエスニック・メディアの社会的機能

ニューヨーク市の日系新聞読者調査から

抄録

　This study attempts to explore the social function of Japanese newspapers in New York City. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews mainly with twenty readers who planned to sojourn in the city. The results show that the newspapers allowed them to live in their own culture, to confirm their homeland is still the same, and to compare the homeland to host society. In conclusion, the main social function is to enable the readers to imagine ‘national’ identity.