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

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.

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