The Internet and Formations of Iranian American-ness

Next Generation Diaspora

Donya Alinejad (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XI, 201 Seiten

2018 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-83785-7 (ISBN)

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This book explores how the children of Iranian immigrants in the US utilize the internet and develop digital identities. Taking Los Angeles-the long-time media and cultural center of Iranian diaspora-as its ethnographic field site, it investigates how various web platforms are embedded within the everyday social, cultural, and political lives of second generation Iranian Americans. Donya Alinejad unpacks contemporary diasporic belonging through her discussion of the digital mediation of race, memory, and long-distance engagement in the historic Iranian Green Movement. The book argues that web media practices have become integral to Iranian American identity formation for this generation, and introduces the notion of second-generation "digital styles" to explain how specific web applications afford new stylings of diaspora culture.

Donya Alinejad is a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC project "Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora, and Belonging" at the Department of Media and Culture Studies at the Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

1. Introduction.- 2. Theories of Migrancy and Media.- 3. Memory.- 4. Race.- 5. Green Movement.- 6. Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.11.2018
Zusatzinfo	XI, 201 p. 1 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	288 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Internet Users • Iran's Green Movement • Second generation studies • Societal inclusion • Socio-technological formation • Transnational identity
ISBN-10	3-319-83785-0 / 3319837850
ISBN-13	978-3-319-83785-7 / 9783319837857
Zustand	Neuware