Digital Diasporas: Staying with the Trouble

Laura Candidatu; Sandra Ponzanesi

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Digital Diasporas: Staying with the Trouble

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This commentary proposes a reorientation of diaspora studies towards new configurations of participation and identification. Digital media affordances in this sense are just such new configurations that enable, sustain and multiply diasporic encounters through social media platforms, digital devices and infrastructures. The emerging digital diasporas do not oppose or replace traditional diasporas, but on the contrary further expand and transform their agency in the digital age Mihaela Nedelcu (2018). In our thinking, we are in conversation with, as well as departing from, previous notions of diaspora. In this commentary, we briefly establish the complex and non-linear genealogy of the term, as partaking in multiple disciplinary takes and discursive orientations, and then migrating to the new realm of technology and digital connectedness.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	261-268
Number of pages	8
Journal	Communication, Culture and Critique
Volume	15
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac010
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2022

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The authors disclose receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: the European Research Council (ERC) consolidator grant CONNECTINGEUROPE (Digital Crossings in Europe; Gender, Diaspora and Belonging) (grant number 647737).

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Keywords

Digital diaspora
affect
ethnography
migration
travelling theory

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