A repertoire of everyday resistance and technological (in)security: Constructing the Rohingya diaspora and transnational identity politics on social media

This research examines how social media is used to negotiate identity politics, as well as how online narratives contribute to Rohingya transnational identity. The findings offer some new insights into the lived experience with technology and how participants negotiate using social media to form a community and shed light on a larger context dealing with issues of surveillance and insecurity. Primarily, identity politics are negotiated on social media through (1) cultural resistance (e.g., traditional song, food event; (2) mediated visibility as a politics (e.g., photography practice, hashtag), and (3) information resistance (e.g., diasporic media). In this paper, I argue that social media offer a niche of a repertoire of resistance and the rise of a new form of engagement as a transnational space in a context of surveillance and statelessness.