The internet and formations of Iranian American-ness : next generation diaspora / Donya Alinejad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alinejad, Donya, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iranian Americans--California--Los Angeles--Ethnic identity.

Iranian Americans.

Iranian Americans--Computer network resources.

Internet--Social aspects--United States.

Internet.

Internet--Social aspects.

Computer network resources.

Ethnicity.

United States.

California--Los Angeles.

Physical Description:

xi, 201 pages : illustration ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[Cham] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Theories of migrancy and media

Memory

Race

The green movement

Conclusion.

Notes:

Dissertation.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319476254

3319476254

OCLC:

979379428

Publisher Number:

9783319476254