This article explores the ways in which Norwegians of African descent explore their relationship with the African diaspora through the multimodal practices of digital online media. Through the stories of two young Norwegian women the article examines how community, ties and ways of belonging are envisioned at both the local and the transnational levels, and at the intersection between online and offline spaces. These stories are drawn from a larger digital ethnography of the African diaspora in Norway. The article underlines the need to locate understandings of ‘diaspora’ and the ‘digital’ within relations and positionalities in specific national contexts and spaces. The article aims to add to the existing literature on how diasporas in general and African diasporas in particular are technologically mediated.
This article addresses questions of identities on the web by examining how Norwegian immigrant youth use social network sites as spaces of personal expression and identity work. The data for the empirical analysis are drawn from a series of selected individual profiles authored by 16 to 20-year-old youth. Elements of text and images were analysed to explore how cultural identities were reproduced or contested in the process of self-presentation. This article explores how the process of identity construction in these online spaces reflects the sort of identity politics played out within the everyday context of the multicultural society and how youth position themselves.
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