Abstract
This article charts new directions in digital media and migration studies from a gendered, postcolonial, and multidisciplinary perspective. In particular, the focus is on the ways in which the experience of displacement is resignified and transformed by new digital affordances from different vantage points, engaging with recent developments in datafication, visualization, biometric technologies, platformization, securitization, and extended reality (XR) as part of a drastically changed global mediascape. This article explores the role of new media technologies in rethinking the dynamics of migration and globalization by focusing in particular on the role of migrant users as “connected” and active participants, as well as “screened” and subject to biometric datafication, visualization, and surveillance. Elaborating on concepts such as “migration” and “mobility,” the article analyzes some of the paradoxes offered by our globalized world of intermittent connectivity and troubled belonging, seen as relational definitions that are always fluid, negotiable, and porous.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 547-557 |
| Journal | Television and New Media |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 6 |
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| Publication status | Published - 7 Jul 2019 |
Keywords
- migration
- digital media
- mobility
- connectivity
- security
- visualization
- biometric
- datafication
- surveillance