The Internet and Formations of Iranian American-ness: Next Generation Diaspora
Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Media Research Across Generations: From Exile Television to Internet -- The Place: Los Angeles as a Global Hub for Media and Migration -- The People: Who Is This Book About? -- Posing Research Questions from an Insider-Outsider Position -- The Field: Delineating the Parameters and Practice of Online-Offline Research -- The Structure of This Book -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Theories of Migrancy and Media -- Digital Diaspora -- The Digital Production of Second-Generation Identity -- Mediating Cultural Identity -- Affordances, Uses, and Practices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Memory -- Digitally Photographing Haft Sin -- Blogging Persia -- Gamification of the Coup -- Remediating Pop Cultural Nostalgia -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Race -- Visibly Different, a Different Kind of Visible -- Racially Ambivalent Bodies, Decisive Representations -- Gendering Middle Eastern-Ness -- Pan Middle Eastern American-Ness -- Forming a Diasporic Anti-Racism -- The Sustained Invisibility of Second-Generation Stories -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: The Green Movement -- Smartphone Videos and the International Formation of "The People" -- Transnational Identification with the Movement -- Screening the Movement -- Simultaneity and the Live-ness of Being Online -- Co-hashtagging and Sharing YouTube Remixes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Conclusion -- Digital Styles, Diasporic Selves -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index