A Study on Transnational Network of Urdu Media by the South Asia Muslims

本项目旨在研究南亚穆斯林乌尔都语媒体的跨国网络。乌尔都语是南亚大部分穆斯林的通用语，而那些移民到世界各地并建立了自己的社区的穆斯林则使用乌尔都语进行交流。这就是为什么在这些社区用乌尔都语印刷和出版了许多报纸、期刊、杂志和书籍。为了方便，这些社区也有英语媒体，尤其是在互联网上，但这些英语媒体也提供有关南亚的信息，甚至是乌尔都语的文学活动。在低成本的网络媒体时代，南亚人以乌尔都语和英语为主，在移民中建立了独特的媒体网络。乌尔都语被认为是世界上第三大语言，但由于其字母，语法和文学遗产是独特的，这种语言的用户一直使用这种语言的媒体作为民族媒体。这种媒体激发了人们对民族或穆斯林的认同。该项目的成员首先访问了有乌尔都语传播媒介的地区，如印度、巴基斯坦、毛里求斯、英国、瑞典、挪威和丹麦，并收集了有关乌尔都语传播媒介的资料和资料。之后在大阪外国语大学举行了两次国际座谈会。当时，来自伦敦大学亚非学院、印度国立艺术学院和巴基斯坦教育大学的乌尔都语语言和文学领域的知名学者应邀参加了研讨会。这两次专题讨论会圆满结束，在专题讨论会上阅读的所有文件都经过修订并提交项目报告，该报告目前正在审议中，以便印度和巴基斯坦出版。

This Project aimed to study on the transnational network of Urdu media by the South Asian Muslims. Urdu language has been used by most of the Muslims in South Asia as a lingua franca' and those Muslims, who migrated to all over the world and established their own communities, used Urdu for communication. That is why many newspapers, journals, magazines and books were printed and published in Urdu in those communities. There are also English media available among those communities for the convenience, especially on the internet, but those English media also provides information about South Asia, even literary activities on Urdu. Now in the era of cyber-media of low cost, South Asian people established a unique network of media among the immigrants mainly in Urdu and English. Urdu language is regarded as the third largest language in the world, but since its letters, grammar and literary heritage are distinctive, the users of this language have been using the media of this language as an ethnic media. This media stimulates ethnic or Muslim identity among the people.The members of this project first visited those areas where Urdu media was available, such as India, Pakistan, Mauritius, England, Sweden, Norway and Denmark and collected sources and information about the Urdu media. Then the members had international symposiums at Osaka University of Foreign Studies twice. At the time renowned scholars of Urdu language and literature were invited to the symposium from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Sahitiya Akademy (National Academy of Art, India), and the University of Education, Pakistan. Those two symposiums ended in success and all the papers read at the symposium were revised and submitted for the project report, which is now under the consideration for the publication from both India and Pakistan.