The Internet and Formations of Iranian American-ness : Next Generation Diaspora / by Donya Alinejad.
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing,
2017.
Cham Springer International Publishing Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XI, 201 pages 1 illustration in color.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| ISBN: | 3319476262 9783319476261 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. Source of description: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 16, 2017) |