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Migrating Through the Web

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Nicole Braida digs into the structures of serious games, text-adventures, newsgames, interactive maps, and data visualizations, in which refugees and migrants become the subject of humanitarian di...
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  • 27 May 2022
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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.
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Price: $55.00
Pages: 260
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Publication Date: 27 May 2022
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837660395
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism
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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.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgments 7
Introduction 9
Chapter 1 - Rethinking Interactive Practices as Cultural Artifacts 19
Chapter 2 - (Digital) Outcast 51
Chapter 3 - A View from Within 97
Chapter 4 - A View from Above 141
Chapter 5 - The Promise of Humanitarianism 181
Conclusions 217
Bibliography 227
List of Interactive and Film References 255