Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0: Diaspora, Gender and Youth Cultural Intersections

Koen Leurs

book: Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2015

Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0

Diaspora, Gender and Youth Cultural Intersections

Koen Leurs

In the series MediaMatters

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048523047

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About this book

Increasingly, young people live online, with the vast majority of their social and cultural interactions conducted through means other than face-to-face conversation. How does this transition impact the ways in which young migrants understand, negotiate, and perform identity? That's the question taken up by Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0, a ground-breaking analysis of the ways that youth culture online interacts with issues of diaspora, gender, and belonging. Drawing on surveys, in-depth interviews, and ethnography, Koen Leurs builds an interdisciplinary portrait of online youth culture and the spaces it opens up for migrant youth to negotiate power relations and to promote intercultural understanding.

Author / Editor information

Leurs Koen :

Koen Leurs is Associate Professor of Gender, Media and Migration Studies at the Graduate Gender Programme of the Department of Media and Culture at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Leurs was the principal investigator of the Team Science project Co-Designing a Fair Digital Asylum System, funded by the Universities of the Netherlands Digital Society program and COMMIT, a public-private ICT research community (2022–2023). He chairs the Utrecht University-wide Digital Migration Special Interest Group, part of the Governing the Digital Society focus area. He previously co-edited The Sage Handbook of Media and Migration (Sage, 2020) and the special issues (Im)mobile Entanglements (International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2023) and Inclusive Media Education for Diverse Societies (Media & Communication, 2022). His latest book is Digital Migration (Sage, 2023). For more information, see https://www.uu.nl/staff/KHALeurs.

Reviews

"Readers from different disciplines will definitely find Digital Passages an interesting read, particularly those researchers with a methodological interest in digital humanities and students of social consequences of online behavior." - Rianne Dekker, KWALON

"Koen Leurs' work on Moroccan-Dutch youth in the Netherlands with a focus on their use of new media makes a very important contribution to research on race, ethnicity and diasporas. The work is informed by theories in postcolonial studies, critical geography, migration and transnationalism and gives us a clear look at the everyday use of new technology by these young people while revealing the power hierarchies that shape the production, use and circulation of media made by and for these young people. His methods allow us to see these young people as agents who make decisions in their media use and production. He also shows how anti-immigrant feelings manifested in offline community are reproduced in computer game culture online. Overall the extent, depth and scope of this project makes it a strong contribution to the study of youth cultures in global media contexts." - Radhika Gajjala, Professor of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University

"Nothing else has been published on these topics that can match the rigour and insight of Koen Leurs' innovative book. Neither cheerleader nor nay sayer, he blasts apart every over simple assumption about social media in the everyday life of these marginalised and misunderstood young Dutch people. Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0 will find a broad resonance beyond the Netherlands. It should be read by everybody interested in the power of network technologies that have altered solidarity, place and belonging and are now transforming the meaning of culture itself." - Paul Gilroy, Professor of American and English Literature at King's College London

"This book analyzes data about the everyday digital lives of Moroccan-Dutch youth gathered by a gifted researcher over many years. A rich and complex picture emerges, one that adds substantially to the existing scholarship on xenophobia, youth and social media, and identity. Strikingly interdisciplinary, humane, and fascinating research from a nuanced feminist perspective." - Lisa Nakamura, Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

"His [Leurs] self-reflexive writing style makes content accessible and readers to feel close to the researcher, who in addition to offering solid results also provides an engaging description of the ethical and epistemological decisions made in the research process." - Cecilia Gordano Peile in Communications, European journal of communication research

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
List of figures Open Access Download PDF	8
List of tables Open Access Download PDF	9
List of diagrams Open Access Download PDF	10
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	11
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	13
1. Methodological trajectory Open Access Download PDF	51
2. Voices from the margins on Internet forums Open Access Download PDF	103
3. Expanding socio-cultural parameters of action using Instant messaging Open Access Download PDF	141
4. Selfies and hypertextual selves on social networking sites Open Access Download PDF	173
5. Affective geographies on YouTube Open Access Download PDF	215
Conclusions Open Access Download PDF	243
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	261
Appendix 1: Meet the informants Open Access Download PDF	287
Index Open Access Download PDF	315

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 324
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 20
- Other: 20 halftones, 20 line drawings
Keywords: Internet; diaspora; gender; youth culture; transnationalism

eBook

Published: July 16, 2015
ISBN: 9789048523047