Refusing Shame and Inertia
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Natalie Dixon
Abstract
In this paper, mobile communication is examined in the context of forced migration from an affective perspective using the case study of an informal migrant camp that was established in 2015 at Budapest’s Keleti train station. Drawing on concepts of migration, affect and media, I examine various news reports and social media commentary about the camp as well as the makeshift Wi-Fi network that was established there in relation to Hungarian populist politics. I posit the station as a site of contestation between migrants, the Hungarian government and non-governmental actors that speaks to the politicisation of communication technology. The conclusion points to how mobile communication provides a way for forced migrants to create a heterotopic space in extreme conditions as the migrant community is affectively moored by media practices that enable feelings of familiarity and security. These practices not only constitute a kind of refuge for migrants but also offer a form of refusal, however small, towards the shaming and inertia they experience.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Content
- Introduction
- I. Case Studies and Field Research
- Big Data Biopolitics
- Accounting for Visual Bias in Tangible Data Design
- The Political Economy of Cultural Memory in the Videogames Industry
- Slow Side of the Divide?
- Unpacking El Paquete
- Refusing Shame and Inertia
- II. Entering the Field
- Mapping Wikipedia’s Geolinguistic Contours
- TouchOn/TouchOff
- Technology and In/equality, Questioning the Information Society
- III. In Conversation with …
- Global Data Justice
- Biographical Notes
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelei
- Content
- Introduction
- I. Case Studies and Field Research
- Big Data Biopolitics
- Accounting for Visual Bias in Tangible Data Design
- The Political Economy of Cultural Memory in the Videogames Industry
- Slow Side of the Divide?
- Unpacking El Paquete
- Refusing Shame and Inertia
- II. Entering the Field
- Mapping Wikipedia’s Geolinguistic Contours
- TouchOn/TouchOff
- Technology and In/equality, Questioning the Information Society
- III. In Conversation with …
- Global Data Justice
- Biographical Notes
