Media, Migrants, and U.S. Border(s)

Összefoglaló

The relationship between migration and media has become an essential topic of study due to its ethical and civil responsibility implications in today's digitalized global environment. Media narratives about world politics, economics, religion, war, and civil conflicts affect migration and diaspora experiences. In response, artistic representations and cultural interventions have become forms of activism, resistance, and confrontation against power narratives. Digital spaces are intensely used as places of activism for migrants and civil society interested in their human rights. Digital archives like "Humanizing Deportation" employ digital storytelling for migrants to express their deportation stories through video, while social media creates community and calls for action. Artistic-technological interventions such as the Playas de Tijuana Mural (2019) use art and technology to protest migration politics by portraying family separation. Intermedial theater performances utilize virtual spaces to represent distance and resistance to it. Finally, new practices, concepts, and models in AI, journalism, and internet freedom have created a rhetoric that could benefit migrants. Migration is usually seen through numbers, statistics, and quantitative data that dehumanize migrants. This book aims to contribute to knowledge of the phenomenon through a more humanistic approach to activism in digital media in the Hispanic world. Intended for students, researchers, and the public interested in migration, it presents interdisciplinary approaches to activist narratives, art, and digital media. It explores diverse types of migrations: deportation, "voluntary" return, caravans, Cuban diaspora, US childhood arrivals, and Southern US border particularities. These topics are analyzed in essays on race, politics, theater, film, music, painting, journalism, multimedia, digital archives, social media, storytelling, and artificial intelligence. The book consists of an Introduction and 12 chapters divided into three sections: Media and Digital Media Artists' Activism; Migrant Activists Online; and Activism through New Constructive Practices. The editors are Rubria Rocha de Luna, a postdoctoral researcher specializing in Digital Humanities and Social Justice, and Jacob Bañuelos Capistrán, a research professor who is an expert in Digital Culture and Visual Semiotics, both from Tecnologico de Monterrey.