Digital Culture and the U.S.-Mexico Border

Rhetorics on Human Mobility

Rubria Rocha de Luna, Maricruz Castro Ricalde (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-85654-4 (ISBN)

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Conceptualizing how digital artifacts can function as a frontier mediated by technology in the geographical, physical, sensory, visual, discursive, and imaginary, this volume offers an interdisciplinary analysis of digital material circulating online in a way that creates a digital dimension of the Mexico-U.S. border.

In the context of a world where digital media has helped to shape geopolitical borders and impacted human mobility in positive and negative ways, the book explores new modes of expression in which identification, memory, representation, persuasion, and meaning-making are created, experienced, and/or circulated through digital technologies. An interdisciplinary team of scholars looks at how quick communications bring closer transnational families and how online resources can be helpful for migrants, but also at how digital media can serve to control and reinforce borders via digital technology used to create a system of political control that reinforces stereotypes. The book deconstructs digital artifacts such as the digital press, social media, digital archives, web platforms, technological and artistic creations, visual arts, video games, and artificial intelligence to help us understand the anti-immigrant and dehumanizing discourse of control, as well as the ways migrants create vernacular narratives as digital activism to break the stereotypes that afflict them.

This timely and insightful volume will interest scholars and students of digital media, communication studies, journalism, migration, and politics.

Rubria Rocha de Luna is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Digital Humanities Research Group, School of Humanities and Education at Tecnologico de Monterrey, México. Maricruz Castro Ricalde is Digital Humanities Co-leader in the School of Humanities and Education at Tecnologico de Monterrey, México.

Introduction

Section 1: Memory, Identity, and Representation of Human Mobility through Social Media and Digital Archives

1. Digital Archives and Women’s Identity: Transborder Rhetorical Practices in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Periodicals

2. The Migrant Woman in the Language of the Mexican Digital Press

3. Embracing the ‘American Dream’ Social Media Imaginary vs. the Daily American Nightmare for Immigrant Women

4. Crossing the Darien with TikTok: Self-representation and Digital Solidarities in Forced Migrants from Venezuela in Transit to the U.S.

5. Music, Migration, and Mexicanness in the Digital World

Section 2: Art and Imaginaries: Border Experiences Mediated by Technology

6. The Rhetoric of Empathy: Digital Storytelling Co-creators Seeking to Humanize Migration and Deportation

7. Towards a Hyper-Aesthetics of Migration: Transnational Identities, Hyperborders, and Hypermediacy in the Visual Narratives of Evan Apodaca and Alex Rivera

8. Reimagining the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands through Contemporary Ecocritical Art

9. Rearticulating Ex-votos within Digital Spaces

10. Visual Imaginaries from Artificial Intelligence on the United States-Mexico Border.

Section 3: Digital Constraints: Representations and Modes of Border Political Control

11. Sleep Dealer (Alex Rivera, 2008): Reconfiguration of Limits/Borders in a Cyborg/Cybernetic Culture

12. “Mi entrevista en Juárez”: The Digital Rhetorics of YouTube Immigration Videos

13. Higher Education for Dreamers Returning to Mexico: Vagueness of Official Communications from a User Experience Perspective

14. Engaging Action: Procedural Rhetoric and Agentive Arguments in Border Crossing Videogames

15. Migration Policy in Mexico and Situated Knowledge: The Denial of Justice as a Form of Discrimination

Erscheinungsdatum	02.11.2024
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
Zusatzinfo	11 Tables, black and white; 27 Halftones, black and white; 27 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Informatik ► Grafik / Design ► Film- / Video-Bearbeitung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-032-85654-8 / 1032856548
ISBN-13	978-1-032-85654-4 / 9781032856544
Zustand	Neuware