Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Publication Special Issue: 

 Migration and Mobility in a Digital Age: 

(Re)Mapping Connectivity and Belonging


Guest editor: Sandra Ponzanesi
Television and New Media, 20(6): 547-648
 https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/tvna/20/6


This special issue 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 issue 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. 

With contributions from:

 
Sandra Ponzanesi (Utrecht University):
Migration and Mobility in a Digital Age: (Re)Mapping Connectivity and Belonging

Arjun Appadurai (New York University):  
Traumatic Exit, Identity Narratives, and the Ethics of Hospitality

Roopika Risam (Salem State University):  
Beyond the Migrant “Problem”: Visualizing Global Migration

Mirca Madianou (Goldsmiths, University of London):  
The Biometric Assemblage: Surveillance, Experimentation, Profit, and the Measuring of Refugee Bodies

Myria Georgiou (LSE):  
City of Refuge or Digital Order? Refugee Recognition and the Digital Governmentality of Migration in the City

Radha S. Hegde (NYU): 
Itinerant Data: Unveiling Gendered Scrutiny at the Border

Joost Raessens (Utrecht University):  
Virtually Present, Physically Invisible: Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Mixed Reality Installation Carne y Arena


more info: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/tvna/20/6

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