The Internet and Formations of Iranian American-ness : Next Generation Diaspora

• Main Author: Alinejad, Donya (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Ethnology > Middle East.; Communication.; Mass media.; Social sciences in mass media.; Ethnicity.; Emigration and immigration.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319476261
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47626-1
• Physical Description: XI, 201 p. 1 illus. in color. online resource.

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 ev...