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Migrating Through the Web: Interactive Practices About Migration, Flight and Exile
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Abstract How to study a media object on the web that is at the same time a documentary, a reportage, and a game which combines both fiction and non-fiction elements? The author digs into the discursive and material structures and infrastructures of serious games, text-adventures, newsgames, interactive maps,... view more
How to study a media object on the web that is at the same time a documentary, a reportage, and a game which combines both fiction and non-fiction elements? The author digs into the discursive and material structures and infrastructures of serious games, text-adventures, newsgames, interactive maps, and data visualizations, in which refugees and migrants become the subject of humanitarian discourse. Although the goal is to arouse empathy towards migrants, these "interactive practices" distinguish who is vulnerable and who is not. It supports the idea of a "migratory crisis", which, the author argues, is actually the symptom of a deeper crisis of the humanitarian system itself.... view less
Keywords
interactive media; Internet; digital divide; migration; flight; exile; documentary film; news report; computer game; fiction (imagination); reality; discourse; visualization; humanitarianism
Classification
Interactive, electronic Media
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Free Keywords
Serious Games; Maps
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
257 p.
Series
Media Studies, 95
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839460399
ISSN
2702-8984
ISBN
978-3-8394-6039-9
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed