The Internet and Formations of Iranian American-ness

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DC Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Donya Alinejad	-
dc.date.accessioned	2018-09-03T12:44:11Z	-
dc.date.available	2018-09-03T12:44:11Z	-
dc.date.issued	2017	-
dc.identifier.isbn	978-3-319-47626-1	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/305	-
dc.description	This book tells a situated story of internet use by a particular part of the Iranian migrant population: second-generation internet users living in LA. It is a story that diverges from my initial intention to focus on the diasporic-blogger-dissidents, whose long distance politics tends to dominate international news headlines and Western imaginaries about Iranians and the internet. It also diverges from the story of their parent’s generation who mostly migrated to the USA in the 1970s and 1980s, and who are typically drawn to different kinds of websites and media practices. This book seeks to investigate how digital media practices are part of the cultural practices of becoming Iranian American for this generation. In the remainder of this chapter, I introduce the field site, outline my fieldwork practice, and define the main research question that this book seeks to address	-
dc.language	en	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Palgrave Macmillan	en_US
dc.subject	ranian American-ness	en_US
dc.title	The Internet and Formations of Iranian American-ness	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US
Appears in Collections:	Social Work

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