Immigrants have played a fundamental role in shaping the life and form of urban public spaces for generations. Their efforts,
as many scholars have observed, mostly aimed at creating places of comfort in new and sometimes hostile receiving
countries. In recent years, the combined contribution of the built environment and screen-based experiences have shaped
migrants’ sense of community and belonging, thus making the concept of online community central to ideas about space
and public life. Drawing upon a 3-year online ethnography, the article discusses to what extent new media constitute spaces
of digital togetherness, where diasporic experiences and transnational identities are constructed and negotiated. It presents
a transnational model of creative media consumption, which helps give insight as to how diasporas and ethnic minorities
contribute to the transformation of public space in the Digital Age