Pacific-Based Virtual Communities: Rotuma on the World Wide Web

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Title:	Pacific-Based Virtual Communities: Rotuma on the World Wide Web
Author:	Howard, Alan
Date:	1999
Publisher:	University of Hawai'i Press Center for Pacific Islands Studies
Citation:	Howard, A. 1999. Pacific-Based Virtual Communities: Rotuma on the World Wide Web. The Contemporary Pacific 11 (1): 160-75.
Abstract:	The recent dispersal of Pacific Islanders from their home islands poses long-term problems for maintaining a continuing sense of community. One possible solution is the World Wide Web, where virtual communities can be established to help perpetuate a common cultural heritage. This paper describes a website for the global Rotuman community that includes a number of features designed to serve this purpose.
ISSN:	1043-898X
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10125/13261
Keywords:	diaspora, Internet, Rotuma, virtual communities
LC Subject Headings:	Oceania -- Periodicals.