| ID | 118793 |
| Title Proper | Locating home in a digital age |
| Other Title Information | an ethnographic case study of second-generation Iranian Americans in LA and their use of internet media |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Alinejad, Donya |
| Publication | 2013. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This paper explores how children of Iranian immigrants engage with internet media in processes of identity formation. It conceptually centralizes places of home in order to bring together literatures on diaspora and digital media in order to understand the case of the second-generation immigrant home. It argues that this partially mediated home is both connected/mobile and emplaced/embodied. It is in this sense that the article discusses processes of locating home, in the sense of both a narrated discovery and a materially situated formation. The findings are generated from ethnographic fieldwork among second-generation Iranian Americans in Los Angeles carried out over a period of twelve months as part of an ongoing doctoral project with a focus on respondents' everyday practices of internet usage. |
| `In' analytical Note | Iranian Studies Vol. 46, No.1; Jan 2013: p.95-113 |
| Journal Source | Iranian Studies Vol. 46, No.1; Jan 2013: p.95-113 |
| Key Words | Iran ; Iranian Immigrants ; Internet Media ; Iranian Americans ; Los Angeles |