Braida Migrating Through the Web

Interactive Practices About Migration, Flight and Exile
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-8394-6039-9
Verlag: transcript
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: Edition Medienwissenschaft

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? Nicole Braida 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Braida, Nicole

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation

Über Autor(innen)

Braida, Nicole
Nicole Braida (PhD) works at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz as a postdoctoral fellow. She obtained her doctorate at the same University and as a candidate in the DFG-funded research collective 'Configurations of Film' at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. She has studied film and media in Italy, Germany, and Belgium. Her research focuses on interactive media, serious games, maps, data visualization, and the transformation of film culture.

Nicole Braida (PhD) works at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz as a postdoctoral fellow. She obtained her doctorate at the same University and as a candidate in the DFG-funded research collective »Configurations of Film« at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. She has studied film and media in Italy, Germany, and Belgium. Her research focuses on interactive media, serious games, maps, data visualization, and the transformation of film culture.