The Internet and Formations of Iranian American-ness

This book explores how the children of Iranian immigrants in the US utilize the internet and develop digital identities. Taking Los Angelesthe long-time media and cultural center of Iranian diasporaas 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.

Discusses the role of contemporary media in the changing socio-technological formation of diasporic identities Questions the dominant frame of exile in understanding the experiences and identifications of second-generation Iranians in the US Sheds new light on existing research that focuses on the role of social media in the 2009 Iranian Green Movement

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt

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