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Refugee Selfies and the Media of Migration
Global Media Cultures
English - December 15, 2020 12:00 - 47 minutes - 110 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsTV & Film Arts media studies film television music social media higher education globalization Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this week's episode, guest Eszter Zimanyi discusses her article "Digital Transience: Emplacement and Authorship in Refugee Selfies" which analyzes "refugee selfies" collected from Instagram's Explore Places map feature as an alternative viewpoint on the so-called 2015 European refugee crisis. Zimanyi argues that that refugee selfies are best conceived as a form of digital transience that provide the refugee with a sense of emplacement in a particular location along with an archive of their movement across locations. At the same time, these digital posts also prompt a disruptive affective charge that forces other viewers of the image to contend with the precarity of the refugee’s existence in any location.
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