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[ecrea] New book: The internet and formations of Iranian American-ness

Thu May 11 21:39:54 GMT 2017







New book from Palgrave Macmillan

"The internet and formations of Iranian American-ness: Next Generation Diaspora"

Donya Alinejad


This book is an ethnography of the uses of various web platforms and applications by second-generation Iranian Americans living in Los Angeles, the long-time media and cultural center of Iranian diaspora. Investigating how practices of web use are embedded within everyday social, cultural, and political life in LA, the book unpacks contemporary diasporic belonging through its discussion of the digital mediation of race, memory, home, and the historic Iranian Green Movement of 2009. Its chapters are organized around each of these four themes, with each showing how web media practices have become integral to Iranian American identity formation for this generation. It argues for a notion of "digital styles” to explain how specific web applications afford new stylings of diaspora culture.

This book is based on the doctoral research of the author, who received her PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher on the ERC project “Digital Crossings in Europe: Gender, Diaspora, and Belonging” at the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

Palgrave Macmillan | April 2017 | 201pp | ISBN 978-3-319-47626-1 | Hardcover €96,29 | eBook €76,99

Digital versions of the chapters can each be purchased separately for €29,69


Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Theories of Migrancy and Media

3. Memory

4. Race

5. The Green Movement

6. Conclusion


Please find further info via the publisher: https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319476254 <https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319476254>



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