Year
2024
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Category
Digital Technology and Communication
Language
English
Pages
7
ISBN
978-9-04855-575-8
Last Update
03-Feb-2026
Keywords
Sociology ; Gender Studies ; Communication Studies
Digital mediation of everyday life enables unexpected possibilities for migrants’ connectivity, visibility and voice (e.g., Nikunen, 2018; Smets, 2018; Leurs & Ponzanesi, 2018; Horsti, 2019). Particularly mobile technologies have facilitated creative practices for self-expression, also in vulnerable situations such as during journeys across violent borders. Intensification of visual communication, specifically, facilitates mediation across linguistic and other boundaries. Thus, there is a strong argument for democratization and horizontalization of mediation of migration. Mainstream media, state institutions, bordering agents and international organizations no longer control narratives of migration as they did in the broadcast era. Civil society organizations, artists, independent filmmakers and journalists,...
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