Leurs Digital Passages: Migrant Youth 2.0

Diaspora, Gender and Youth Cultural Intersections
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-90-485-2304-7
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 340 Seiten

Reihe: MediaMatters

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leurs, Koen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Cover Table of Contents List of figures List of tables List of diagrams Acknowledgements Fig. 1: “Mocro’s be like. Born Here,” tweet @Nasrdin_Dchar (March 17, 2014) Fig. 2: Geweigerd.nl website top banner (March 6, 2005). 1. Online/offline space and power relations Fig. 3: Google.nl search for “Marokkanen” (June 28, 2012) Digital divides Internet platforms as passages Space invader tactics 2. Digital identity performativity Micro-politics Intersectionality Digital identities: Materiality, representation & affectivity 3. Moroccan-Dutchness in the context of the Netherlands Deconstructing labels 4. The transnational habitus of second-generation migrant youth: From roots to routes 5. Hypertextual selves: Digital conviviality 6. Structure of the book 1. Methodological trajectory Table 1: Time frame of different fieldwork activities Constructing the survey The power of definition Survey sampling and access Conducting the survey Descriptive survey data about digital practices of Moroccan-Dutch youth Diagram 1: Subcultural affiliations as expressed by the Moroccan-Dutch survey respondents (percentages, multiple answers possible, n = 344) Table 2: Frequency of non-Internet media use among Moroccan-Dutch youth (percentages, n = 344) Diagram 2: Locations where Moroccan-Dutch youth connect to the Internet (percentages, n = 344) Diagram 3: Internet application user frequencies of Moroccan-Dutch youth (means, 5-point scale, n = 344) Diagram 4: The attachment of Moroccan-Dutch youth to various Internet applications (means, 3-point scale, n = 344) 1.3 In-depth interviews Interview sampling Table 3: The interviewees; names are pseudonyms suggested by the informants Doing interviews using participatory techniques Fig. 4: Internet map made by Soesie, a thirteen-year-old girl Reflexivity and power relations Inside and outside school: The dynamics of interview settings Fig. 5: Word cloud based on all Internet applications included in the Internet maps of the informants 1.4 Virtual ethnography Publicly accessible digital field sites Accessing closed digital field sites 1.5 Analyzing informants’ narratives Politics of translation Coding Fig. 6: Four different approaches to discourse analysis (Phillips and Hardy, 2002, p. 20) 1.6 Conclusions 2. Voices from the margins on Internet forums Table 4: The importance of online discussion forums in the lives of Moroccan-Dutch youth (percentages, n = 344) Marokko.nl and Chaima.nl 2.2 Theorizing Internet forums as subaltern counterpublics Diagram 5: Attention for major news events on nl.politiek and Marokko.nl (adapted from Van Stekelenburg, Oegema & Klandermans, 2011, p. 263) Fig. 7: “Average Moroccan boys look like this,” forum user Mocro_s contesting Moroccan-Dutch masculinity (Mocro_s, 2007a) Hush harbors The carnivalesque Networked power contradictions Fig. 8: “Average Moroccan girls look like this,” forum user Mocro_s contesting Moroccan-Dutch femininity (Mocro_s, 2007b) Daring to break taboos: “I just want to know what ‘the real deal’ is” 2.5 Digital postsecularism: Performing Muslimness Fig. 9: Forum user Mocro_s contesting Moroccan-Dutch religiosity (Mocro_s, 2007b) Digital reconfigurations of religious authority Voicing Muslimness Fig. 10: Cartoon Overvaren (in English: Sailing Across) (Rafje.nl, 2011) 2.6 Conclusions 3. Expanding socio-cultural parameters of action using Instant messaging 3.1 Moroccan-Dutch youth using instant messaging Table 5: The importance of instant messaging in the lives of Moroccan-Dutch youth (percentages, n = 344) Fig. 11: Screenshot of an MSN Messenger conversation with twelve-year-old Soufian (July 22, 2011) 3.2 Theorizing instant messaging as a way of being in the world 3.3 The private backstage Diagram 6: Topics Moroccan-Dutch youth report to discuss (graph shows percentages, n = 344) Boundary making Unstable boundaries: Risks and opportunities 3.4 The more public onstage Display pictures and gender stereotypes Display names and bricolage A funky, informal writing style 3.5 Conclusions Fig. 12: Hyves groups thirteen-year-old Anas linked to on his Hyves profile page (July 22, 2011) 4.1 Moroccan-Dutch youth on Hyves and Facebook Table 6: The importance of social networking sites in the lives of Moroccan-Dutch youth (percentages, n = 344) Diagram 7: Moroccan-Dutch youth self-reporting SNS profiling attributes (graph shows percentages, n = 344) Motivations Diagram 8: Reasons for participating in self-profiling on SNSs (multiple answers possible, graph shows percentages, n = 344) Templates and user cultures Neoliberal SNS logics Fig. 13: Facebook advertisements (advertisements appeared on October 16, 2011, and January 11, 2012) Teenager SNS logics Selfie ideals Diagram 9: Selfie ideals reported by Moroccan-Dutch youth (multiple answers possible, percentages, n = 344) Meeting the gaze: Objectification and/or representation Victimization and cautionary measures Fig. 14: Still from Bezems 2010. uploaded by user Bezemswalla on YouTube (February 8, 2010) In-betweenness 4.4 Hypertextual selves and the micro-politics of association Fig. 15: Hyves groups Midia linked to on her Hyves profile page (April 15, 2009) Cultural self-profiling as fandom Fig. 16: “I’m a Berber Soldier,” archived from http://imazighen.hyves.nl (September 19, 2009) Diagram 10: Moroccan-Dutch youth cultural self-profiling on SNSs (multiple answers possible, graph shows percentages, n = 344) Fig. 17: “Error,” archived from http://trotsopmarokko.hyves.nl (October 23, 2009) Fig. 18: “100% Marokaan,” archived from http://trotsopmarokko.hyves.nl (October 23, 2009) Differential networking Table 7: Self-profiling cultural affiliations (n = 344 Moroccan-Dutch and 448 ethnic-majority Dutch respondents) 4.5 Conclusions 5. Affective geographies on YouTube Table 8: The importance of YouTube in the lives of Moroccan-Dutch youth (percentages, n = 344) The Ummah Fitna Fig. 19: Still from Kop of Munt, YouTube video uploaded by MUNT (October 20, 2009) 5.2 Theorizing the politics of YouTube 5.3 Theorizing affective geographies and YouTube use 5.4 Rooted belongings: Transnational affectivity Fig. 20: Still from Marrakech, Morocco City Drive, YouTube video uploaded by eMoroccan (October 8, 2010) 5.5 Routed affective belongings across geographies Diagram 11: Geographical locations of music artists interviewees look up on YouTube (percentages, multiple answers possible, n = 43) Diagram 12: Geographical locations of artists interviewees combine in their YouTube viewing practices (percentages, n = 43) 5.6 Conclusions Conclusions 1. Transdisciplinary dialogues 2. Methodological considerations 3. Digital inequality and spatial hierarchies 4. Space invader tactics and digital belonging Bibliography Appendix 1: Meet the informants Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.

Koen Leurs is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science and is affiliated with the Institute for Cultural Inquiry at the Graduate Gender Programme at Utrecht University.