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" Online Homelands: Israeli-Persian Identity Between the Online and the Offline "
Aya Yadlin Segal
La Pastina, Antonio C.
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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804773
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TL49609
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1964386774; 10662634
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Monti-Catania, Diane
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Online Homelands: Israeli-Persian Identity Between the Online and the Offline\ Aya Yadlin SegalLa Pastina, Antonio C.
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Texas A&M University
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2017
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Ph.D.
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Communication
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2017
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301
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Committee members: Ayatollahi Tabaar, Mohammad; Campbell, Heidi A.; Wallis, Cara
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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-27823-1
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In this dissertation, I present an ethnographic exploration of how a post-migration community—the Persian community in Israel—constructs its identity. Drawing on cultural and postcolonial theories, I discuss the ways in which the community preserves, negotiates, and resists cultural structures in the Israeli ethnic and national contexts. Through a multi-sited ethnographic exploration, I follow members of the Persian community in Israel, a marginalized ethnic minority, as they construct their national-ethnic identity. Embodying the discord between their two perceived homelands, Israelis of Iranian descent carve themselves an idealized homeland online. In it, they simultaneously resist and re-affirm social structures within and between the two nations and cultures. I focus this exploration on the use of social media, mobile-phone applications, and internet radio for post-migration identity formation. Through this study, I aim to answer a set of questions. Primarily, I attend the question - what is the role of online media platforms in the process of constructing Persian identities in Israel? Some other secondary questions studied in this dissertation are: a) How do community members communicate and articulate the ethnic and national layers of the Persian identity? b) What are the transnational and transcultural aspects of the Persian community and identity as communicated by community members? and c) What is the place of online platforms usage in challenging mainstream notions of ethnicity, nationality, homelands, and host lands?
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Communication
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Communication and the arts;Construction;Culture;Facebook;Identity;Iran;Israel;Mobile application;Offline;Online;Persian
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La Pastina, Antonio C.
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CommunicationTexas AM University
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