With the increase in migration to the Western countries, social media became the alternative space for Arab diaspora to meet and bring in the issues of their concern. Diaspora community discussions on open online spaces in Sweden reveal different dynamics between migrants online. The paper focuses on such platforms where one can examine the identities of migrants and critically analyse the discourses and ideologies emerging in the texts in commentary sections.

This paper aims to study the digital interactivity of the Arab diaspora on the Alkompis and Sweden Today Facebook pages. Additionally, it profiles the type of news the diaspora interacts with, by analysing their comments on certain issues tied to their home/host countries. To better understand the topic under study, quantitative content analysis and qualitative critical discourse analysis (CDA) approaches were applied