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Mediated Migrancies: How Genres of Digital Media Practice Form Transnational Experiential Worlds

10 February 2020, 5:00 pm–6:30 pm

Mediated Migrancies: How Genres of Digital Media Practice Form Transnational Experiential Worlds

Event Information

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All

Organiser

Material, Visual and Digital Culture Seminar Series

Location

UCL Anthropology
Daryll Forde Seminar Room
14 Taviton Street
London
WC1H 0BW
United Kingdom

Digital media communication is increasingly the central way transnational migrants live social lives that span distances and borders. The proliferation of “the social web” raises important questions about how this everyday reliance on apps and platforms forms people’s experiences of living transnationally. Drawing on digital media practices among Iranian Americans in Los Angeles, Turkish Dutch returnees in Istanbul, and Romanian loved ones of intra-EU migrants in Bucharest, this talk traces how digital media usages constitute genres that fuse technical platform features, social conventions, and everyday practices to produce various transnational experiential worlds.

About the Speaker

Donya Alinejad

at Utrecht University