Introduction: Conceptualizing the Media of Diaspora

Ogunyemi, Ola

doi:10.1057/9781137457233_1

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“…In addition, diaspora politics constitutes an area of digitally-mediated political engagement that especially calls for a transnational approach, as migrant groups often maintain border-crossing political investments in both “host” country and “homeland” politics. And the role of media in these transnational commitments has long been theorized as significant (Karim 2003; Karim and Al-Rawi 2018; Ogunyemi 2015).…”

Section: Diaspora Politics and Online Political Manipulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Online Performance of Civic Participation: What Bot-like Activity in the Persian Language Twittersphere Reveals About Political Manipulation Mechanisms

Honari

Alinejad

2021

Television & New Media

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In this paper, we reveal the understudied transnational dimensions of politically manipulative activity on social media. Specifically, we identify and investigate a bot-like Twitter network associated with the controversial organization of Iranian political exiles, the Mojaheddin-e Khalgh (MEK). Tracing and contextualizing the Twitter debate around women’s rights within the 2016 Iranian Parliamentary election, our analysis contributes to the scholarship on diaspora and digital media by drawing attention to the often-neglected potentials for non-state actors such as diaspora groups to make use of social media to promote political propaganda that advances militarist violence. We demonstrate how the MEK network’s “online performance of civic participation” is typical of a bot-net of weak influence inside Iran, but that the aims and extent of its influence can only be fully understood by situating it within a historical and transnational analysis of Iranian diasporic media and politics, one that takes complex US-Iran diplomacy dynamics into consideration.

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Section: Diaspora Politics and Online Political Manipulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Online Performance of Civic Participation: What Bot-like Activity in the Persian Language Twittersphere Reveals About Political Manipulation Mechanisms

Honari

Alinejad

2021

Television & New Media

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“…It is interesting then to understand how a relatively minor story propagated by a few far-right Sikh organisations in Britain has taken hold of Sikh diasporic imaginaries. The function of the circulation of the "forced" conversion narrative appears to reinforce a particular sense of identity and forms of belonging (Ogunyemi 2015), allowing Sikhs to be connected through the telling and re-telling of the story. It perhaps does not matter so much the extent to which the story is accepted or rejected, as what remains significant is the fact that such a discourse continues to occupy an important place within Sikh diasporic spaces.…”

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“Love Jihad”, “Forced” Conversion Narratives, and Interfaith Marriage in the Sikh Diaspora

Sian

2021

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This paper sets out to critically examine the “forced” conversion narrative circulating across the Sikh diaspora. The “forced” conversion narrative tells the story of Muslim men allegedly deceiving and tricking “vulnerable” Sikh females into Islam. The paper explores the parallels between the “forced” conversion narrative and the discourse on “love jihad” propagated by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), as well as drawing out its particularities within the Sikh community. The paper is informed by new empirical data generated by a series of qualitative interviews with Sikhs in the UK, US, and Canada, and captures the complexities and nuances of my respondents in their interpretations of, and challenges to, the “forced” conversions narrative. The paper adopts a decolonial Sikh studies theoretical framework to critically unpack the logics of the discourse. In doing so, it reveals a wider politics at play, centred upon the regulation of Sikh female bodies, fears of the preservation of community, and wider anxieties around interfaith marriage. These aspects come together to display Sikh Islamophobia, whereby the figure of the “predatory” Muslim male is represented as an existential threat to Sikh being.

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“…As new digital technologies allow individuals to preserve transnational relationships over large geographical spaces, they enable creating what Appadurai (1996) describes as "diasporic public spheres", which proposes an imagined community away from the homeland. Ogunyemi (2015) argues that previous literature missed the active audience perspective when studying the media usage by diasporic groups who consume different media for various purposes including information, entertainment, engagement, commerce, and faith. This goes beyond merely using media as a means for fostering belonging to a certain community or producing political representation (Bozdag et al, 2012).…”

Section: Information Acquisition In Diasporic Contextsmentioning

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Between authoritarianism and democracy: Examining news media usage for political re-socialization and information acquisition in diasporic contexts

Arafat

2020

Journal of Global Diaspora &Amp; Media

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While political scholars study news media as agents of political learning, the processes of political re-socialization of a conflict-generated diaspora moving from authoritarian to democratic regimes pose significant theoretical challenges that remain insufficiently researched. To this end, this study investigates the importance of traditional and digital media sources from the homeland and host country in fostering refugees’ understanding of the democratic norms and values, and political opportunities offered by the receiving country. Furthermore, it investigates the role of online diaspora communities as agents for political re-socialization and tools for information acquisition about Arabic, Swiss and international politics. Sixty semi-structured interviews with Arabs from refugee origins in Switzerland were analysed. Findings show the influence of the early-life political socialization, received prior to forced migration, on the purposive consumption of media from various sources. As Facebook started to lose its value as a source of political information, participants shift to producing and consuming news distributed by strong ties on private WhatsApp groups as a counter-strategy to acquire trustworthy information. Further insights on the impact of perceived media credibility and individual trust in news on the consumption behaviour and political learning are discussed.

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Introduction: Conceptualizing the Media of Diaspora

Cited by 25 publications

References 18 publications

Online Performance of Civic Participation: What Bot-like Activity in the Persian Language Twittersphere Reveals About Political Manipulation Mechanisms

Online Performance of Civic Participation: What Bot-like Activity in the Persian Language Twittersphere Reveals About Political Manipulation Mechanisms

“Love Jihad”, “Forced” Conversion Narratives, and Interfaith Marriage in the Sikh Diaspora

Between authoritarianism and democracy: Examining news media usage for political re-socialization and information acquisition in diasporic contexts

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