Constructing Ethnicity through ICT: Visual Culture, Creativity and the Circulation of National Symbols in Postmigrant Youth Culture
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2020-12Typ
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This chapter explains how young people from an Albanian background in Switzerland and Germany use information and communication technologies (ICT) to construct, appropriate and negotiate ethnicity and “national identity” through the production and consumption of audiovisual media such as photography and video. Based on an empirical cultural and media studies approach, it will be shown how symbols of national discourses are transferred into the mediated construction and negation of postmigrant Albanian identity on the social web. The paper examines three case studies in which the symbol of the Albanian double-headed eagle circulates through different social, technical and media environments. It will be discussed how this national symbol provides changing (youth and national culture) meanings and narrative potentials with its circulation and how the development of “agency” through the production of (audio-)visual media in digital amateur culture is framed by the post-Fordist demand for creativity and visibility. Mehr anzeigen
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Fixing and Circulating the Popular. Ethnographies of Technology, Media, Archives and the Dissemination of CultureZeitschrift / Serie
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ETHNOLOGY + CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY + CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; Migration; Social Media; SWITZERLAND (CENTRAL EUROPE). SWISS CONFEDERATION; KOSOVO (SOUTHEAST EUROPE); COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH (SOCIOLOGY); DigitalisierungOrganisationseinheit
02803 - Collegium Helveticum / Collegium Helveticum
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