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This chapter focuses on the pro-democracy Green uprising in Iran that took place in the summer of 2009. The movement, and the backlash it experienced from the Iranian government, are approached in terms of how they were experienced from LA, both as a global media event and one to which Iranians in the diaspora felt deeply connected. On the basis of observations at communal gatherings, interviews with web users, and online participant observation, this chapter presents an account of how the movement came into being for the diaspora through particular social media platforms. It discusses what this mediation meant for the second generation in particular, arguing for the importance of web media in performances of political identity, sensations of simultaneity with the protests, and expressions of solidarity in a crisis situation. It concludes that particular styles of transnational engagement were key in producing experiences of digitally mediated diasporic connection.
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Alinejad, D. (2017). The Green Movement. In: The Internet and Formations of Iranian American-ness. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47626-1_5
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